{"id":21860,"date":"2012-11-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/en\/categories\/law_order\/html\/2012\/11\/20121102_173614.shtml"},"modified":"2012-11-02T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T04:00:00","slug":"7-2m-in-illicit-cigarettes-seized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2012\/11\/02\/7-2m-in-illicit-cigarettes-seized\/","title":{"rendered":"$7.2m in illicit cigarettes seized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/images\/categories\/law_order\/related\/2012\/11\/week1\/customs_s.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Customs officers have seized three million cigarettes worth $7.2 million, and with a duty potential of $5.2 million, in a crackdown on telephone ordering of illicit cigarettes.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officers detected 96 cases via telephone order from April to October, and arrested 119 people aged 18 to 73, including 61 illicit cigarette buyers.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Forty-one vehicles used to deliver the cigarettes were also seized.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the past 10 months the department has detected 14 significant smuggling cases and shut down 208 illicit cigarette distribution centres, seizing 55 million illicit cigarettes worth $135 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Illicit cigarette activities can be reported on 2545 6182.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Customs officers have seized three million cigarettes worth $7.2 million, and with a duty potential of $5.2 million, in a crackdown on telephone ordering of illicit cigarettes.\u00a0Officers detected 96 cases via telephone order from April to October, and &#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-21860","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\/21860"}],"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=21860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}