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Gauteng police on Friday raided a property in Fordsburg where three suspects were arrested after illicit cigarettes and prohibited medication worth millions were found in their possession. | Lisaleesolomon1

The suspects were arrested by members of the Gauteng Organised Crime Investigations unit in Johannesburg.

"The information was operationalised by members from [the] OCI unit who strategically positioned themselves and raided the address. Upon entering the premises, police found medicine protected by the Medicines and Related Substances Act and a large quantity of illicit cigarettes hidden in the self-made ceiling shelf," Masondo added. On Friday, illicit cigarettes and prohibited medication worth millions were found at a property in Gauteng.

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