PHOTO: A tractor is almost hidden in the illegal tobacco crop growing on the banks of the Castlereagh River. The crop was discovered and destroyed by the Australian Taxation Office in a raid last Wednesday. (This is a 2018 news story)
An operation by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) last Wednesday 14 March netted a tobacco crop that had been flourishing in the paddocks beside the Castlereagh River a few kilometres south of Coonamble.
With help from local Police, ATO officers seized and destroyed illegal tobacco worth an estimated . . .
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