The Customs & Excise Department and Marine Police today seized 480 computer hard disks with a total value of about $192,000 in a joint anti-smuggling exercise in Ap Lei Chau.

At about 4am, Customs and Marine Police officers found several men unloading goods from a private car onto a high-powered speedboat at the pier on Lee Nam Road.

The men immediately fled in the speedboat and car, and officers seized eight cartons of hard disks. No one was arrested.

Under the Import & Export Ordinance, any one found guilty of exporting unmanifested cargo is liable to a maximum fine of $2 million and seven years in prison.