On May 5, Gongbei Customs announced that it had cracked down a wine smuggling case worth RMB105 million, in which individual smugglers (called “shuike”) smuggled high-end wine and foreign wine inbound by three gangs.

On the early morning of March 31, Gongbei Custom Anti-Smuggling Department launched the anti-smuggling campaign simultaneously at Zhuhai, Zhongshan, Guangzhou and Shanghai cities, capturing 3 gangs headed by Li, Yang, and Liang smuggling high-end wine and foreign wine, and detaining a batch of high-end wine such as “Hennessy XO”, “Johnnie Walker Blue”, “Opus One”, and “Mouton”, with 15 smugglers arrested.

Through investigation, the mainland businessmen Li and Yang run chateaus in Zhuhai and Guangzhourespectively and. To get illegal profits, they purchased various wine from external suppliers in Hong Kong andMacao. Macanese Liang organized “shuike” to smuggle the wine inward by body or luggage hiding, and then the wine was delivered to customers across the country by logistics. Now this case has been under further investigation.

Customs anti-smuggling officers were inspecting the smuggled wine.

Smuggled wine seized by the Customs