According to reports from Guangzhou Daily and CCTV, Shenzhen Customs recently uncovered a cell phone smuggling case worth RMB 500 million across 26 Shenzhen and Hong Kong involving 26 criminal suspects. It is reported that unlike previous customs smuggling, the involved persons were involved. Passed drone 'fly line' cross border smuggling mobile phones.
The smugglers used drones to carry lighter fishing lines. They flew over the Shenzhen River outside the bedroom window and reached the construction site on the opposite side of the Shenzhen River in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong counterparts fixed the heads of the heads to a tree, and took them to black. The leather bearing line. After the 'flying line' line is set up, the pulley and stranding device are used to transport the smuggled goods on the line. The other line is connected to a village house next to the construction site.
According to reports, a line unmanned is about 200 meters long and can carry a small canvas bag with more than a dozen mobile phones in 50 seconds. Each line operates from about 4 to 5 people. Up to 15,000 mobile phones can be smuggled in from midnight to early morning. After dawn, smugglers hide and remove the lines.
Photo source: Guangzhou Daily
The investigators claimed that since 2016, Wu Gang’s gangs have taken orders from Hong Kong to a number of Mainland customers and smuggled goods such as Apple mobile phones, most of which are Apple’s refurbished mobile phones and a small part of new mobile phones. They charge smuggling to Mainland customers according to their value. With the entry of 'worker's fee', the goods are smuggled into the country and delivered to the customer.
According to the suspect's confession, each refurbished cell phone can earn between 20 and 30 yuan to bring a worker's fee. Smuggling a newest cell phone can earn nearly 100 yuan. Due to the use of drones, smugglers can also rely on the weather, the environment and the market. Such comprehensive factors as considering whether to carry out smuggling activities may start for more than ten days a month. According to preliminary estimates, smugglers can earn several million yuan a month.
Law enforcement officers seized on the spot 4,000 smuggled mobile phones of various brands suspected of smuggling in and smuggling drones, iron wheel winches, fishing lines and other 'flying line' smuggling tools. According to the evidence held by the Customs, preliminary estimates The case involved a case worth as much as 500 million yuan. Shenzhen Customs said that the use of unmanned aerial vehicles for smuggling is rare, and it was also the first time in the country's customs.
The Customs and Excise Department also launched a simultaneous operation, successfully arrested three persons involved and seized about 900 mobile phones, as well as a number of smuggling tools such as 'flying lines' and canvas bags.