PETALING JAYA: A Malaysian man, arrested in 2017, has been sentenced to five years in prison for smuggling more than six million cigarettes into Australia, says the Australian Border Force (ABF).
ABF said that the cigarettes were concealed within “sophisticated cover loads”, adding that the cigarettes, which originated from Malaysia, had a total duty evasion of more than A$4mil (RM11.6mil).
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