{"id":18771,"date":"2012-02-12T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/en\/categories\/law_order\/html\/2012\/02\/20120212_103918.shtml"},"modified":"2012-02-12T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-12T04:00:00","slug":"2-arrested-in-cigarette-seizure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2012\/02\/12\/2-arrested-in-cigarette-seizure\/","title":{"rendered":"2 arrested in cigarette seizure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/images\/home\/department_logo\/Customs_and_Excise__Dept.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Customs officers yesterday seized a cross-boundary lorry containing 92 boxes of illicit cigarettes worth about $2.8 million and arrested two men, aged 41 and 54, in Sheung Shui.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At about 1.30pm yesterday, officers spotted the lorry in a public car park at Fung Nam Road where they saw the two men off-loading wooden boxes onto a local rental lorry.\u00a0 Customs officers then took action and found the 1.1 million cigarettes with a duty potential of $1.9 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The maximum penalty on conviction for dealing with, possessing, selling or buying illicit cigarettes is two years in jail and a $1 million fine.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Report any suspected illicit cigarette activities to the Customs' 24-hour hotline, 2545 6182.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Customs officers yesterday seized a cross-boundary lorry containing 92 boxes of illicit cigarettes worth about $2.8 million and arrested two men, aged 41 and 54, in Sheung Shui.\u00a0At about 1.30pm yesterday, officers spotted the lorry in a public car par&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chinese-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}