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The customs broke 23 cases of smuggling frozen meat in half a year and inspected 90 million yuan of goods for the sum of the past 11 years

2020-06-19T21:23:37.070Z


Since the beginning of the year, the Customs and Excise Department has taken a series of law enforcement actions, focusing on cracking down on the smuggling of frozen meat in the western waters and three-run waters of Hong Kong, and carried out a special law enforcement operation code-named "Minesweeper" in early May. As of June 17 this year, the Customs has detected 23 related cases and seized about 2,500 metric tons of suspected smuggled frozen meat, with an estimated market value of about 90 million yuan. During the "mine clearance" operation, more than 1,700 metric tons of frozen meat were seized, and a total of 31 people were arrested, aged between 18 and 65, many of whom were reported as shipowners and search and transportation workers. The Customs displayed a large amount of frozen meat in the inspection yard of the Tsing Yi office this afternoon. Many of the smuggled frozen meat came from Brazil and the United States.


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Written by: Deng Bailiang, Guo Qianwen

2020-06-19 14:28

Date of last update: 2020-06-19 16:52

Since the beginning of the year, the Customs and Excise Department has taken a series of law enforcement actions, focusing on cracking down on the smuggling of frozen meat in the western waters and three-run waters of Hong Kong, and carried out a special law enforcement operation code-named "Minesweeper" in early May. As of June 17 this year, the Customs has detected 23 related cases and seized about 2,500 metric tons of suspected smuggled frozen meat, with an estimated market value of about 90 million yuan. During the "mine clearance" operation, more than 1,700 metric tons of frozen meat were seized, and a total of 31 people were arrested, aged between 18 and 65, many of whom were reported as shipowners and search and transportation workers. The Customs displayed a large amount of frozen meat in the inspection yard of the Tsing Yi office this afternoon. Many of the smuggled frozen meat came from Brazil and the United States.

(Photo by Guo Qianwen)

Hu Weijun, senior supervisor of the Organized Crime Investigation Section of the Customs, said that the Customs began to find out that there were criminals who used fishing boats to smuggle frozen meat to the inside for profit in the second half of last year. In November last year, the Customs and Excise Department has taken enforcement actions and seized 500 kilograms of smuggled frozen meat in the southeast waters. However, at the beginning of this year, the criminals changed their strategy and placed frozen meat on barges before sailing to the western waters and three-run waters for mooring as a marine mobile warehouse. After nightfall, the criminals arranged fishing boats, speedboats and cargo ships to sail to the barge to pick up the cargo and quickly leave Hong Kong waters. Since the related vessels do not have freezing equipment, frozen meat is easily exposed to the greenhouse during the smuggling process, and it is easy to breed bacteria.

Li Yanping, Supervisor of the Special Investigation Section of the Organized Crime Investigation Division, pointed out that Hai has taken "mine clearance" operations since May to vigorously crack down on illegal activities of smuggling frozen meat. The operation detected 10 cases of smuggling at sea and seized 1,700 metric tons of frozen meat, worth 60 million yuan, and arrested 31 men between 18 and 65 years old. Among the single seized cases with the most frozen meat, customs officers seized more than 600 tons of frozen meat in 6 barges.

Li Yanping continued to point out that the criminals have recently used the western waters, Sanpao waters, Longguzhou and Shazhou areas. Because there are many engineering ships operating near Sanpao, the criminals have berthed the barges nearby, or they have been intermixed with the engineering ships, increasing law enforcement Difficult, and the site is close to the waters of Hong Kong. After picking up the cargo on the barge, the criminals can immediately leave the waters of Hong Kong at high speed.

Maritime Operations Division Supervisor (Port and Maritime Affairs Section) Zheng Wenyuan stated that the Customs mobilized more than 100 customs officers for the "mine clearance" operation and cooperated with multiple customs vessels to combat smuggling activities. Zheng Zhi said that smuggling hot spots such as Longguzhou and Shazhou, some islands are less than one mile away from the waters of Hong Kong, criminals can leave in just a few minutes by speedboat. Most criminals are smuggled at night, the sea is dark at night, and smuggled speedboats are driven without lights. The speed is often as high as 40 to 50 nautical miles (about 90 kilometers per hour), ignoring the rules of maritime navigation and affecting the safety of other ships. Customs dispatched high-speed interceptor boats to pursue and crack down on illegal acts.

Zheng Wenyuan continued that since the beginning of the year, customs has seized 2,500 metric tons of frozen meat, including beef, beef offal, pork, and pig's feet, etc., estimated to be from the United States, Brazil, Germany, and India, and the amount of tariff evasion is as high as 39 million yuan. This year, the Customs and the Marine Police also carried out joint operations. A total of 6 cases of frozen meat smuggled by sea were detected, 187 tons of frozen meat were seized, with a total value of 7.35 million yuan, and 16 people were arrested.

Customs said that so far this year, a total of 23 cases of maritime smuggling have been cracked, a three-fold increase over the same period last year; 2,500 metric tons of frozen meat were seized during the operation, an increase of 7 times; the total value of goods was 90 million, an increase of 9 times, which is more equal to the total seized in the past 11 years value.

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