In an anti-smuggling operation early today, 17 June, Customs officers swooped on an apparent warehouse of a smuggling syndicate in Wong Keng Tei, a village near the entrance to the Sai Kung Country Park at Pak Tam Chung, seizing high-value electronic products worth about $3 million and arresting one man.
Based on intelligence analysis, officers of the Special Task Force had been keeping surveillance on smuggling activities in Wong Keng Tei, observing that several suspected smugglers were conveying goods from a village house to a motorboat on the seashore before transferring the goods to two speedboats stationed in the water nearby.
Along with the man arrested in the village house, who claimed to be a construction worker, officers seized 235 cartons of electronic goods including 928 notebooks, 1,152 computer hard disks, and 7,760 LCD monitors. The village house is believed to have been used as a warehouse by the smuggling syndicate which attempted to smuggle the goods to the China Mainland at night. The case is still under investigation.
Under the Import and Export Ordinance, smuggling is a serious offence, and the maximum penalty is a fine of $2 million and imprisonment for seven years.
Customs urges members of the public to report any suspected smuggling activities through their 24-hour hotline: 2545 6182.
See how Sai Kung's residents helped Police prevent crime in a number of neighbourhoods recently.
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