Ferrari-driving property mogul John Woodman is being represented by a law firm that has hired big names involved in the operation that implicated him. Not that it will help him one bit.
Ferrari-driving property mogul John Woodman is being represented by a law firm that has hired big names involved in the operation that implicated him. Not that it will help him one bit.
Black market cigarettes a growing boom trade in WA, warns ex-top border cop
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The founder of Border Force s illegal tobacco squad says one in five cigarettes smoked in Australia is illegal and demand has spawned a smuggling trade worth hundreds of millions of dollars each year, with a recent record-breaking case in Western Australia.
This week two cousins, Omar and Khaled Hussein, were jailed for four years and 10 months each, with parole, by a Perth District Court after trying to smuggle $8.5 million worth of illegal cigarettes into Fremantle Port on October 31, 2018.
The 9.5 million cigarette haul discovered at Fremantle Port in 2018. Three men were arrested and sentenced for smuggling.