From: The West Australian
Raids ‘change the underworld’
Janet Fife-Yeomans, Nick Hansen and Ian Paterson
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The third, Operation Kindra, targeted illegal tobacco smuggling and the seizure of 1.4 tonnes of ephedrine, a precursor drug for ice, in June, which was disguised as sea salt and had an estimated street value of $650 million.
It involved the arrest of a father and son and raids on two tobacco shops in Fairfield and Canley Vale by the NSW gangs squad and the Australian Border Force.
