Another Smuggling Attempt Was Foiled At The ChineseBorder
into the mainland. This time around, though, it feels as if the smuggler wasn’t bothered to make a greater effort in concealing the goods, given how the discovery was made.
According to the Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department, the suspect is a 61 year old man who tried to smuggle around US$3.8 million worth of electronic goods from Hong Kong into Mainland China. With a haul that valuable, it’s clear he wasn’t going to be taping bags of them across his body.
In total, the Hong Kong smuggler had 30 wooden boxes all of which were labelled as electronic displays – components that incur a light import tax in China. Once it went through the x-ray machine, though, the customs officials found that they contained almost 510000 pieces of hardware that included CPUs, storage drives, laptops, and smartphones.Smuggling goods across the borders between the SAR territories and mainland China is nothing new.
For his crimes, the Hong Kong smuggler was arrested but the customs on the Hong Kong side said that it had already released the man on bail, pending further investigation. If he’s convicted, he could face a fine of US$254000 and a seven-year prison sentence.
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