00:02Shut down yet again. These Rundle Street convenience stores have been hit with multiple short term closure orders for illegal
00:11tobacco sales.
00:12Clearly the laws that have been brought in in Adelaide are not sufficient to deter criminals from re-entering the
00:19markets.
00:20I'm very concerned about the rise of illegal tobacco and that is why we have doubled our efforts in out
00:28there policing it, increasing penalties, investing a lot of money in the resources to do that policing work and we're
00:35getting results.
00:37Authorities have closed down a dozen convenience stores in the city including this one. Its closure in recent days is
00:44the eighth time it has been forced to shut over cigarette sales.
00:48Convenience stores are the easy way for organised crime to get their product to market so it is a problem.
00:55Investigations into the stores are continuing. South Australian laws were strengthened last year as part of a wider crackdown on
01:02the booming illicit tobacco market.
01:05Multi-million dollar financial penalties are now available to authorities as well as the power to close stores temporarily.
01:12Closure orders like this one last for 28 days. Anything longer requires a court ordered shutdown which can't exceed 12
01:21months.
01:22The state government says its illicit tobacco team will continue raiding stores and shutting them down to keep disrupting the
01:29supply chain of illegal cigarettes and vapes.
01:33It's also putting landlords on notice that they need to terminate leases or face a fine.
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