Truck chauffeur founded guilty and imprisoned for trying to export unmanifested freight and forbade posts not under and in accordance with export licence (with image)
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A truck chauffeur, aged 59, was sentenced to 3 months’ jail time by the Fanling Magistrates’ Courts today (November 3) for trying to export unmanifested freight and forbade posts not under and in accordance with a licence, in breach of the Import and Export Ordinance (IEO) (Cap. 60).
Through threat evaluation, Hong Kong Customs officers previously obstructed an outgoing truck stated as bring hairpin at the Lok Ma Chau Control Point. A batch of unmanifested freight, consisting of 240 human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines, 96 tablets of pharmaceutical items, 100 blood collection tubes, 3 cellphones and 120 tablets of health items, with an approximated market price of about $830,000, was discovered in the freight compartment.
Custom-mades invites the sentence. The custodial sentence enforces a significant deterrent result and shows the severity of the offenses.
Smuggling is a major offense. Under the IEO, anybody condemned of importing or exporting unmanifested freight is responsible to an optimum fine of $2 million and jail time for 7 years upon conviction. Anybody who exports pharmaceutical items and medications without a legitimate licence 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 smuggling 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).