Border Force seizes 1.7m cigarettes, thousands of vapes in WA, NT raids | ABC NEWS

More than a dozen businesses in the Top End have been raided as part of a major illegal tobacco bust, from car yards and clothing stores to grocers and petrol stations.

During a six-day blitz, authorities say they seized more than 300,000 illegal cigarettes and 1,500 vapes in the fourth major operation aimed at disrupting the Territory's black-market trade.

Courtney Barrett-Peters has this report for ABC News Northern Territory.

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