From: Whale Oil Beef Hooked
by Cameron Slater
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Police believe the black market is fuelling armed robberies and burglaries, with criminals targeting dairies and stealing tobacco products for resale rather than for personal use.
King says: “There’s going to be people shot over it [tobacco]. Someone is going to get killed.”
Customs are dreaming and the Police are picking up the pieces. At the select committee a few years back I told them this would happen, I also told them how easy it was to get hold of illicit tobacco. In Auckland a phone call and a bag of cash can get you a 40 foot container full of illicit tobacco inside 24 hours. I offered to prove it to the MPs, but they turned me down.
