Husband and wife used Macao as conduit for smuggling 3,000 designer label items; case still under investigation.
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Ten tonnes of frozen meat seized after brief chase; two 40-year-old smugglers from mainland transferred to Public Prosecutions Office.
Officers believe cash ferried across the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge may have been laundered in the city’s casinos; five suspects released on bail.
Illegal immigrants pay RMB 19,000 each to get into Macao as part of a widespread people-smuggling scheme foiled by swift police action.
Two cases of travellers caught smuggling Chinese spirits into Zhuhai early this week.
A male mainlander was arrested for illegally entering Macao and three suspects were arrested for assisting him in obtaining false documents and a fake nucleic acid test (NAT) certificate so that he could gamble in local casinos.
Nine suspects were caught on Monday for parallel trading in violation of the External Trade Law, resulting in the confiscation of a total of 2,700 luxury brand cosmetics, handbags and clothes worth MOP 2.4 million, the Macao Customs Services said in a statement this week.
Northern District Community Services Consultancy Council (CCSCZN) member Kuan Cheong Wun Ian said on Thursday that parallel traders are back in business as quarantine requirements between Macao and Zhuhai have been lifted.
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.