Upper Hastings grazier tricked into leasing river flats for illegal tobacco crop

By Jamie Brown
Updated January 28 2020 - 6:37pm, first published January 24 2020 - 2:00pm
Mature tobacco under drip irrigation on the Upper Hastings River before the Australian Tax Office cut them down, on Thursday. Neighbours' concerns about excessive irrigation led to the raid by ATO officers with police. Photo courtesy ATO.
Mature tobacco under drip irrigation on the Upper Hastings River before the Australian Tax Office cut them down, on Thursday. Neighbours' concerns about excessive irrigation led to the raid by ATO officers with police. Photo courtesy ATO.

A Lebanese syndicate purporting to be growing vegetables on the upper reaches of the Hastings River has had their crop of illegal tobacco cut down by officers from the Australian Tax Office after raids on a property Thursday morning.

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