Source: Hong Kong Government special administrative region
Three incoming passengers convicted and jailed for possessing / importing duty-not-paid cigarettes
In addition, Customs officers intercepted an incoming 56-year-old male passenger at Hong Kong International Airport yesterday (June 10). Customs officers seized about 34 000 duty-not-paid cigarettes, with an estimated market value of about $140,000 and a duty potential of about $113,000, from his personal baggage. The passenger was subsequently arrested. He was sentenced to five months’ imprisonment and fined $1,000 by the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts today.Issued at HKT 18:27
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