Inbound guest founded guilty and imprisoned for importing duty-not-paid cigarettes (with picture)
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An inbound female guest was sentenced to 3 months’ jail time and fined $1,000 by the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts today (November 15) for importing duty-not-paid cigarettes and stopping working to state them to Customs officers, in breach of the Dutiable Commodities Ordinance (DCO).
Customs officers obstructed the inbound female traveler, aged 40, at Hong Kong International Airport on November 13 and took 30 200 duty-not-paid cigarettes with an approximated market price of about $135,000 and a task capacity of about $99,000, from her individual luggage. The guest was consequently apprehended.
Custom-mades invites the sentence. The custodial sentence has actually enforced a substantial deterrent result and shows the severity of the offenses.
Customizeds advises members of the general public that under the DCO, tobacco items are dutiable products to which the DCO uses. Anyone who imports, handle, has, offers or purchases illegal cigarettes 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 presumed illegal cigarette activities to Customs’ 24-hour hotline 182 8080 or its devoted crime-reporting e-mail account (crimereport@customs.gov.hk) or online kind (eform.cefs.gov.hk/ form/ced002).