3 inbound guests founded guilty and imprisoned for importing alternative cigarette smoking items (with images)
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2 male and one female inbound guests were sentenced to 6 months’ jail time at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts today (September 1) for importing alternative smoking cigarettes items, in conflict of the Import and Export Ordinance(IEO).
Customs officers obstructed a 42-year-old inbound male guest at Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) on July 4 and took about 92 600 alternative cigarette smoking items from his individual luggage with an approximated market price of about $278,000. In addition, Customs officers obstructed a 21-year-old inbound female guest and a 27-year-old inbound male traveler at HKIA on July 5 and took about 91 000 alternative cigarette smoking items respectively from their individual luggage with an approximated market price of about $546,000 in overall. The 3 guests were consequently detained.
Customizeds invites the sentence. The custodial sentence has actually enforced a significant deterrent result and shows the severity of the offenses.
Under the IEO, an individual who imports an alternative cigarette smoking item into Hong Kong dedicates an offense. The optimum charge upon conviction is a fine of $2 million and jail time for 7 years.
Members of the general public might report any thought illegal cigarette activities to Customs’ 24-hour hotline 182 8080 or its devoted crime-reporting e-mail account (crimereport@customs.gov.hk) or online type (eform.cefs.gov.hk/ form/ced002/en/).