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MACAU AND ZHUHAI BUSTED RMB135M LIQUOR SMUGGLE RING ARRESTING 19
By Tony Zhu
8-6-2022
Source: Zhuhai Municipal Public Security Bureau
The Macau and Zhuhai authorities in China recently busted a parallel trading operation specialising in smuggling high-end liquors and wines into mainland China, 19 people were arrested and were suspected to have smuggled some RMB135 million (USD20.2 million) worth of liquors and wines.
According to the Macau Gongbei Border Customs, 17 special response groups were dispatched on 10 May to raid a number of locations in Zhuhai, Zhongshan and other cities in a joint operation with the Zhuhai police.
The operation had raided shops, warehouses and storages and arrested a total of 19 people. It was believed that two smuggling gangs has been busted by the operation.
During the raid on a liquor store in Xiawan area of Zhuhai city, the store owner and three other suspected smugglers were arrested.
A considerable amount of Kweichow Moutai, Penfolds wines and Japanese whiskies were seized from the storage area of the liquor store.
Source: Zhuhai Municipal Public Security Bureau
Police had also seized some 2,000 bottles of liquor goods, worth some RMB3 million, and a batch of cash from two minivans suspected for being used for smuggling.
Customs officials believed the owner of the raided Zhuhai liquor store, a native of Jieyang city in Guangdong province, is a suspected ring leader of the smuggling operations.
The gangs were said to have repeatedly ordered branded liquors and wines, thought to worth some RMB135 million, from Macau merchants and then smuggled them into mainland China to avoid paying tariffs and taxes.
They then transported the smuggled goods to liquor stores for shop sales or to warehousing facilities where they were packaged for online sales.
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