The reporter learned from the Ministry of Public Security on the 20th that recently, China's customs anti-trafficking department and the Australian border law enforcement department launched a joint enforcement operation to successfully uncover a multinational tobacco smuggling case. In total, Chinese and Australian law enforcement authorities have seized more than 90 million smuggled cigarettes, and achieved major results in the joint fight against multinational tobacco smuggling. Since this year, in order to crack down on outstanding issues such as tobacco smuggling, counterfeiting and counterfeiting, under the unified deployment of the Preventive Bureau of the General Administration of Customs, the Zhanjiang Customs Preventive Bureau has launched the “Li Sword 2026-2” special operation, successfully knocked out 9 illegal cigarette smuggling gangs, sealed 9 storage dens, and seized more than 32 million cigarettes and more than 1,100 boxes of e-cigarettes involved in the case. Following line tracking, the customs anti-trafficking department uncovered a criminal smuggling gang that attempted to enclose counterfeit tobacco products manufactured abroad in regular goods and transport them to the Australian smuggling network through our country. In order to combat and rectify the whole chain, the Preventive Bureau of the General Administration of Customs promptly reported relevant leads to relevant Australian border law enforcement departments through the China-Australia Customs anti-smuggling enforcement cooperation channel. Subsequently, the two sides simultaneously carried out joint enforcement operations and successfully uncovered the multinational tobacco smuggling case. Australia seized more than 60 million smuggled cigarettes and 60 kilograms of tobacco leaves.

The reporter learned from the Ministry of Public Security on the 20th that recently, China's customs anti-trafficking department and the Australian border law enforcement department launched a joint enforcement operation to successfully uncover a multinational tobacco smuggling case. In total, Chinese and Australian law enforcement authorities have seized more than 90 million smuggled cigarettes, and achieved major results in the joint fight against multinational tobacco smuggling. Since this year, in order to crack down on outstanding issues such as tobacco smuggling, counterfeiting and counterfeiting, under the unified deployment of the Preventive Bureau of the General Administration of Customs, the Zhanjiang Customs Preventive Bureau has launched the “Li Sword 2026-2” special operation, successfully knocked out 9 illegal cigarette smuggling gangs, sealed 9 storage dens, and seized more than 32 million cigarettes and more than 1,100 boxes of e-cigarettes involved in the case. Following line tracking, the customs anti-trafficking department uncovered a criminal smuggling gang that attempted to enclose counterfeit tobacco products manufactured abroad in regular goods and transport them to the Australian smuggling network through our country. In order to combat and rectify the whole chain, the Preventive Bureau of the General Administration of Customs promptly reported relevant leads to relevant Australian border law enforcement departments through the China-Australia Customs anti-smuggling enforcement cooperation channel. Subsequently, the two sides simultaneously carried out joint enforcement operations and successfully uncovered the multinational tobacco smuggling case. Australia seized more than 60 million smuggled cigarettes and 60 kilograms of tobacco leaves.