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"Made in China" shipments

2022-05-02T05:48:23.411Z


Last month (April 21), Hong Kong Customs detected a suspected smuggling case using river boats in the waters west of Hong Kong, and seized a large number of suspected smuggled goods, including various valuable electronic products, musical instrument accessories and audio equipment.


Last month (April 21), Hong Kong Customs detected a suspected smuggling case using river boats in the waters west of Hong Kong, and seized a large number of suspected smuggled goods, including a variety of valuable electronic products, musical instrument accessories and audio equipment, with an estimated market value of about 1.6 It is the largest maritime smuggling case cracked by the customs this year.

After investigation, Customs officers arrested a 69-year-old woman suspected of being involved in the case on the next day of the operation (22nd), and seized three containers involved in the case.


Wong Chi-fai, commander of the Maritime Operations Team of the Port and Sea Division, believes that lawbreakers use the operation mode of river vessels to frequently travel between the waters of the two places in order to reduce the chances of being intercepted by customs officers.

He pointed out that after analyzing the data, the Maritime Action Team dispatched a regional patrol boat on the night of April 21 to intercept a river vessel heading for Lianhuashan Port in the mainland in the waters west of Hong Kong.

There were 6 men and 1 woman mainland crew members on board, who said they were carrying 55 containers.

Customs noticed that there were 3 containers on the declared container list, which were reported to contain 40 tons of LCD glass panels and LCD screens. Suspicious, Customs escorted the river vessel back to Tuen Mun River Trade Terminal for further investigation.

Wong Chi-fai, commander of the maritime operations team of the Marine Division, pointed out that the Customs noticed that there were 3 containers on the declared container list, which were reported to contain 40 tons of LCD glass panels and LCD screens. .

(Photo by Weng Yuhui)

The LCD glass panel is exposed to hide the smuggled high price in the container

Customs officers scanned the above-mentioned three suspicious containers with X-ray equipment and found that the density of the goods was different. There was only a single liquid crystal glass panel and liquid crystal display screen. It was believed that smuggled goods were infiltrated.

After the staff opened the container, they found that the goods actually had "MADE IN CHINA" printed on them. They felt very suspicious about sending goods made in China to the mainland. They found that the LCD glass panel and LCD screen were just disguise. It is undeclared smuggled goods.

Wong Ching-fu, Commander of the Second Special Investigation Unit of the Organised Crime Investigation Bureau of the Customs, described the smugglers as "carefully arranged" for the goods in an attempt to confuse them. goods.

Customs officers found that the three containers were transported by the same local company. After investigation, a 69-year-old woman was arrested. She is the person in charge of the company. It is not ruled out that more people will be arrested.

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Smuggled goods are high-priced goods Gold-plated tone arm vinyl record player 300,000 yuan

Cheng Dexi, supervisor of the Special Investigation Division of the Organised Crime Investigation Division of the Customs, pointed out that most of the smuggled goods seized this time were computer components, including solid-state drives, memory, and central processing units. Among them, there were even server-grade components. up to 20,000 yuan.

The single most valuable piece is a vinyl record player with a gold-plated tonearm, worth about 300,000 yuan.

Unlike in the past, there are also musical accessories such as cello strings in the smuggled goods.

Customs estimated that if the shipment was successfully smuggled, it could evade about 90 million tariffs.

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Source: hk1

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