Hong Kong: river trade vessels involved in spate of smuggling cases
Over the last two weeks Hong Kong Customs has successfully thwarted smugglers attempts to transport large batches of goods into Macau and the Mainland from Hong Kong
Hong Kong Customs on March 7 detected a suspected smuggling case involving a river trade vessel.
A large batch of suspected smuggled goods, including over 25,000 cosmetic products, about 3 500 bottles of fragrance oil, about 50,000 electronic parts, about 2,500 mobile phones, about 50 kilograms of birds’ nests and about 650kg of suspected scheduled red sandalwood, with a total estimated market value of about $24m, was seized. Photo shows the suspected smuggled goods seized
On February 29 and March 2 Hong Kong Customs detected two suspected smuggling cases involving river trade vessels. Suspected smuggled goods with a total estimated market value of about HK$211m was seized. Seized goods included over 130,000 hard disks, about 200 000 electronic product accessories, about 160,000 cigarettes, about
13,000 bottles of health products and about 3,000 boxes of pharmaceutical products.
On March 7, a river trade vessel departing from Hong Kong and bound for Nansha of Guangzhou was selected for inspection. Upon examination, Customs officers onboard the vessel found large batches of suspected smuggled goods, including over 25 000 skincare products, about 3,500 bottles of fragrance oil, about 50,000 electronic parts, about 2,500 mobile phones, about 50 kilograms of birds’ nests and about 650kg of suspected scheduled red sandalwood with a total value of HK$24m
An investigation into both incidents is ongoing.
