A principal organiser of an elaborate tobacco smuggling scheme involving $463,000 in evaded revenue, identity fraud, and a false passport can expect a sentence in the range of four years and eight months imprisonment. Nebulous offers of cooperation with authorities, without a specific undertaking, warrant only modest recognition in the non-parole period rather than a discount off the head sentence. The risk of deportation must be assessable rather than merely speculative before it may be taken into account in mitigation.
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