Tunnel intended for smuggling sealed by police
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Police have discovered and sealed an unfinished tunnel dug under a residential complex in southern Shenzhen City which was to be used smuggling goods from Hong Kong, Legal Daily reported.
The tunnel in the Changling village area in Shenzhen was about 40 meters long, 0.8 meter wide and 1 meter tall. It was so narrow that only one person could crawl through, according to the report.
Interior lighting, ventilation, carts, track, ropes and pulleys to transport smuggled goods were already inside the facility, it reported.
Frontier inspection soldiers discovered the tunnel on December 19 when they heard sounds in the reeds outside the barbed wires. They searched the tunnel and seized the excavating tools.
Police found the unfinished tunnel started from a nearby garage and ended at the boundary river between Shenzhen and Hong Kong.
People who crawled out from the tunnel emerged under the cover of three-meter-high reeds, police said.
Investigators concluded that the tunnel was intended to smuggle mobile phones, hard drives, tablet computers and other electronic products from Hong Kong to China’s mainland to evade Customs duty and other taxes.
The garage owner said the garage had been rented out to a man since August.
Police found the man used fake identity card, the report said. A further investigation is still under way.
Shenzhen frontier inspection team has beefed up its cooperation with Hong Kong police to crack down on smugglers.
They have put up many surveillance cameras in the areas adjoining Hong Kong and exchange clues every week.
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