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Officers crack wine smuggling operations
By Xu Fang |
January 7, 2009, Wednesday
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SHANGHAI Customs uncovered six wine-smuggling cases in one week last year and 5.9 million yuan (US$863,002) tax was found to have been evaded, officials said yesterday.
Shanghai Customs launched a crackdown on March 6. Officers raided targeted companies and collected Customs declaration bills and original invoices as evidence.
They found that smugglers reported lower prices of imported wine to Customs by forging invoices and collaborating with overseas suppliers to offer bills with lower prices than the actual ones.
"It is quite difficult to get evidence in such cases because we must control everybody on the scene," said Ma Yongming, who was in charge of one of the investigating teams. "Otherwise, anybody can destroy the evidence in a mouse click."
The cases involved 26.5 million yuan worth of wine. The prices smugglers reported to the Customs were 50 percent to 70 percent below the real prices, said Sun Yongwei, deputy director of the anti-smuggling bureau under the Shanghai Customs.
He said Customs began to notice the problem in 2007.
Officers found the reported prices of imported wine were rather low by comparing prices on domestic and overseas markets and it was decided to launch an investigation.
A total of 25 billion liters of bottled wine was imported through Shanghai last year.
Shanghai Customs launched a crackdown on March 6. Officers raided targeted companies and collected Customs declaration bills and original invoices as evidence.
They found that smugglers reported lower prices of imported wine to Customs by forging invoices and collaborating with overseas suppliers to offer bills with lower prices than the actual ones.
"It is quite difficult to get evidence in such cases because we must control everybody on the scene," said Ma Yongming, who was in charge of one of the investigating teams. "Otherwise, anybody can destroy the evidence in a mouse click."
The cases involved 26.5 million yuan worth of wine. The prices smugglers reported to the Customs were 50 percent to 70 percent below the real prices, said Sun Yongwei, deputy director of the anti-smuggling bureau under the Shanghai Customs.
He said Customs began to notice the problem in 2007.
Officers found the reported prices of imported wine were rather low by comparing prices on domestic and overseas markets and it was decided to launch an investigation.
A total of 25 billion liters of bottled wine was imported through Shanghai last year.
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