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Smuggling racket busted

Source: AFP | January 5, 2014, Sunday | Print Edition

Hong Kong customs seized nearly 4 million cigarettes, worth over US$1.2 million, in a two-week operation aimed at stifling smuggling in the city, officials said yesterday.

Authorities arrested seven people aged between 23 and 63 in the operation, which started in mid-December.

“Two cross-boundary vehicles conveying illicit cigarettes were seized and five illicit cigarette storage points were smashed,” a government statement said yesterday.

Customs said almost 90 percent of the seized cigarettes were found on two vehicles crossing the border from the Chinese mainland into the city.

Some of them were found in concealed spaces within containers carried by the vehicles. “The total market value was estimated at HKD$10 million (US$1.29 million) with a duty potential of about HKD$6.7 million,” the statement said of the cigarettes.

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