{"id":20356,"date":"2012-06-14T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/en\/categories\/law_order\/html\/2012\/06\/20120615_090258.shtml"},"modified":"2012-06-14T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T04:00:00","slug":"5-arrested-for-cigarette-smuggling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2012\/06\/14\/5-arrested-for-cigarette-smuggling\/","title":{"rendered":"5 arrested for cigarette smuggling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/images\/categories\/law_order\/related\/2012\/06\/week3\/incig_s.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Five men, aged 28 to 45, were arrested and illicit cigarettes worth $4.4 million were seized in customs crackdowns at Man Kam To and Lok Ma Chau control points.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the two operations, officers seized 240 boxes containing 1.75 million illicit cigarettes worth $4.4 million, with a duty potential of $3 million, and three lorries.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A driver and three other men were arrested at the Lok Ma Chau control point, where 1.3 million duty-not-paid cigarettes were found.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A driver was arrested at Man Kam To where officers found the other 450,000 duty-not-paid cigarettes concealed inside 106 cartons containing fresh fruit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five men, aged 28 to 45, were arrested and illicit cigarettes worth $4.4 million were seized in customs crackdowns at Man Kam To and Lok Ma Chau control points.\u00a0In the two operations, officers seized 240 boxes containing 1.75 million illicit cigarette&#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-20356","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\/20356","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=20356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}