Tee Va Tee Va was a Moogan male smuggler who led a smuggling ring in operation during the Clone Wars . Va once operated in Mandalore ' s capital city Sundari , diluting tea with slabin in order to double the amount he could sell and therefore doubling his profit . Va ' s operation was ended when he used a contaminated batch of slabin that ended up poison ing a number of Mandalorian children causing him to become imprisoned . However eventually Va escaped and was seen on Zygerria at a slave auction , and later was on Mandalore again . Biography . Smuggling tea into Mandalore . Arrival on Mandalore . Tee Va , a male Moogan smuggler from the Commerce Guild - controlled world of Mooga , operated a black market smuggling ring during the Clone Wars . Va ' s ring was once tasked with diluting tea with slabin , a diluting agent , in Mandalore ' s capital city of Sundari . Tee Va , plus his Moogan and Gotal compatriots , arrived in the docks and were greeted by a customs official that questioned Va , as the arrival of their starship was not in his schedule . Va bribed the official with Galactic Republic credit ingot s , as he explained that all of the other customs officials were off observing a parade welcoming Senator Padmé Amidala . The official then informed Va that the next time he arrived , he would have to deal with him directly . Mixing tea with slabin . Va and the rest of the smugglers eventually set up shop in a warehouse on the docks , guarded by members of the Mandalorian secret service . Inside , Va ordered a Mandalorian man to mix the slabin with Ardees Beverage tea in order to get twice the tea at twice the profit . Va was then posed with the question if the slabin was toxic , which it only was if the dosage was incorrect . The man then began the mixture of the tea and slabin . In the nighttime of Mandalore , Va and his cronies returned , bribing the customs official again , but unbeknownst to them Senator Amidala and Duchess Satine Kryze were watching with a member of the Journeyman Protector s . Attack on the warehouse . Some time after the second shipment of tea arrived on Mandalore , the warehouse at the Sundari docks was attacked by members of the Mandalorian Guard , led by a police captain , Kryze and Amidala . Va defended the warehouse with a blaster , but ultimately Va , members of his smuggling ring , and the workers at the warehouse were all taken into custody by the police . Kryze then ordered the captain to burn down the warehouse . The Zygerrian slave auction . Va , having somehow escaped Mandalorian custody , was later present at the royal slave auction on the planet Zygerria , homeworld of the Zygerrian species . Va was at the Zygerrian slave market standing next to the Muun InterGalactic Banking Clan representative Nix Card , observing the auction . Return to Mandalore . Tee Va eventually returned to Mandalore , now under the control of the Shadow Collective , to continue smuggling , ordering other Moogans to move crates as Obi - Wan Kenobi arrived aboard the freighter " Twilight " . Va briefly looked over when there was scuffling aboard the freighter , but quickly turned back and continued to move the shipping containers . Behind the scenes . Tee Va first appeared , albeit unidentified , in the " " television series episode titled " Corruption " voiced by Dee Bradley Baker . Va was identified in the Episode Guide that went along with the episode .