Second new service to Zhuhai will ease travel to Guangdong; passengers warned to observe Covid-19 precautions.
Macao Customs Service
Operation Thunderbolt nets two people smugglers and five illegal immigrants from the mainland as they were attempting to sneak into Macao.
Macao man who evaded hotel security hauled back into quarantine; authorities ponder tighter measures to prevent possible future breaches.
Macao Customs Service officers on Wednesday searched a cargo truck and found 541 kilogrammes of undeclared fruit and vegetables being smuggled through the Barrier Gate checkpoint.
Macao Customs Service officers found 40 counterfeit luxury-brand handbags in two stores in the same mall in Iao Hon district.
The Macao Customs Service said in a statement last night that its officers caught two local parallel traders earlier this week who were using a car parked in a public car park as a goods collection point with the intention of smuggling goods to Zhuhai on foot.
Fourteen people were caught on Tuesday for their alleged involvement in a parallel trading racket run by two shops in the Barrier Gate area where law enforcement officers seized more than 1,500 goods such as food, alcohol, medicine, beauty and cosmetic products worth about MOP 3.12 million.
The Macao Customs Service held a meeting at its headquarters with representatives from the Public Security Police and the Association of [mainland] Chinese Capital Employment Agencies (Macau) to discuss the issue of non-resident workers getting involved in parallel trading activities.
A local man and a local woman were arrested in two separate cases on Friday for attempting to smuggle 900 and 1,100 cigarettes respectively into Macao from the mainland, the Macao Customs Service said in a statement on Saturday.