On May 24, Shanghai Customs announced that its anti-smuggling bureau, along with Shanghai Public Security Bureau and Shanghai Tobacco Monopoly Bureau, took action to crack a cigarette smuggling case in which individual smugglers colluded with airport staff, seizing nearly 4000 cartons of cigarettes with brands like Mild Seven, Marlboro and PEACE as well as 20 smugglers (16 arrested, 4 released on bail pending trial).

Last June, Shanghai Customs anti-smuggling department captured a cigarette smuggling gang led by a South Korean, which took advantage of PudongAirportstaff to smuggle cigarettes through the Customs. According to this clue, Shanghai Customs carried out follow-up investigation and, through months of probe, another cigarette smuggling gang led by Zhao was found out.

Shanghai Customs seized smuggled cigarettes.