Before dawn on January 5, Huangpu Customs District carried out a special anti-smuggling campaign codenamed “Ice Breaking Ⅱ”. Through the campaign, the Customs wiped out 7 smuggling gangs located in Guangdong and Beijing, captured 20 suspects and seized about 8 tons of frozen marine products on site. This case was valued at RMB596 million.
Based on “Ice Breaking I” in 2015, after further analyzing intelligence leads, Huangpu Customs Counter-Smuggling Police found some of enterprises still suspected of smuggling. The Police, through checking import and export data, investigating import and export companies, market suppliers and cold stores, as well as interviewing merchants, detected a smuggling network made up of 7 gangs and 11 companies based in Huangpu and Guangzhou. The gangs smuggled importing frozen marine products by means of lower price offer, false declaration of commodities, and false declaration of trade nature. Then, coming was the time to seize them.
Early before dawn of January 5, with great support from local public security organs and Customs Anti-Smuggling Bureaus, the Counter-Smuggling Police sent out 200 officers in 7 action teams for 7 places to carry out search and capture in 7 cargo-owner firms and 4 customs-broker firms. Finally, the officers seized 20 suspects, about 8 tons of frozen snails and fishes, and criminal documents as well as electronic data evidence, thus marking the first smuggling case of frozen marine products seized by China Customs in 2016.
Huangpu Customs seized an especially serious smuggling of frozen marine products worth RMB596 million.
Huangpu Customs seized smuggled frozen marine products.
Huangpu Customs seized smuggled frozen marine products.