A Chinese smuggler has been apprehended by Chinese customs officials with a huge tranche of CPUs, SSDs, and RAM sticks. The cache of tech devices was found during a routine search on the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao bridge. The packages were undeclared in a passenger car this is one of the biggest smuggling busts in recent times.
A Weibo blog post by Chinese Customs provided the optics of the smuggling bust which occurred on August 4. The attention of the customs officers was first aroused when the automated machine inspection flagged abnormal content. A further manual inspection revealed the materials in the undercarriage. An unusual underbody seam structure pointed to a possible stash of items. This subsequently resulted in a large section revealing the meticulously wrapped packages. The package contained 837 CPUs, 10 SSDs, and 900 RAM sticks.
The smuggling of goods from Hong Kong or Macau into the mainland is mainly in pursuit of better profits. Smugglers hope to make better profits on the mainland where 13% VAT is applicable. The estimated value of the huge cache of smuggled items has not been stated, but this could be huge. This is not also an isolated incident of smuggling or failure to declare the import of high-value tech components. The Chinese customs authorities have continued to make recoveries of such nature in varying magnitude.
According to the Weibo report, most smugglers are easily identified through their suspicious behavior. It is unclear what is the fate of the suspected smuggler but he could possibly face a jail term or a fine.
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