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Wine smuggler sentenced to life by Beijing court
By Li Qian |
January 12, 2012, Thursday
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A man was sentenced to life imprisonment for smuggling about 70,000 bottles of high-end foreign wines and evading import duties of 20.27 million yuan (US$3.21 million).
It was the largest wine smuggling case in China so far, according to the Beijing No.2 Intermediate People's Court, a local newspaper reported today.
Sun Taixi was accused of forging import contracts and invoices to avoid paying heavy taxes between January 2004 and December 2009, the Beijing News said.
The manager of three Beijing trading companies was sentenced to one year in prison with a one-year reprieve by a court in the neighboring city of Tianjin in 2002, but he carried on the illegal business, the paper said.
The 62-year-old man admitted to his crime but insisted that he just earned 4 million yuan in profits.
His secretary, Meng Li, was sentenced to five years in prison and fined 2 million yuan for her involvement in the case.
Both have appealed the court ruling.
It was the largest wine smuggling case in China so far, according to the Beijing No.2 Intermediate People's Court, a local newspaper reported today.
Sun Taixi was accused of forging import contracts and invoices to avoid paying heavy taxes between January 2004 and December 2009, the Beijing News said.
The manager of three Beijing trading companies was sentenced to one year in prison with a one-year reprieve by a court in the neighboring city of Tianjin in 2002, but he carried on the illegal business, the paper said.
The 62-year-old man admitted to his crime but insisted that he just earned 4 million yuan in profits.
His secretary, Meng Li, was sentenced to five years in prison and fined 2 million yuan for her involvement in the case.
Both have appealed the court ruling.
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