AdvertisementExclusive NationalNSWCrime Machine capable of making 3.5m cigarettes a day seized in Sydney tobacco bust Daniel Lo Surdo January 30, 2026 — 2:00am Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. The manufacturing machine seized in Sydney’s north-west can produce over 3.5 million cigarettes every day. Efforts to quash the illegal tobacco market are predominantly focused on importation. AdvertisementSamuel Harnden, acting superintendent of the ABF’s Illicit Tobacco Taskforce, said there “are clear and established links between local illicit tobacco manufacturing in Australia and organised criminal syndicates”. “Every illicit tobacco purchase provides funding to these criminal syndicates, giving them the funds that drive further violence and serious criminal activity,” Harnden said.