{"id":29411,"date":"2015-06-09T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/en\/categories\/law_order\/html\/2015\/06\/20150609_162721.shtml"},"modified":"2015-06-09T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T04:00:00","slug":"driver-arrested-for-cigarette-smuggling-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2015\/06\/09\/driver-arrested-for-cigarette-smuggling-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver arrested for cigarette smuggling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/images\/home\/Categories_generic_icons\/Health\/Health_14.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Customs officers arrested a truck driver at Lok Ma Chau control point today after finding suspected illicit cigarettes worth $6.8 million hidden in his vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The incoming container truck was declared to be carrying 192 boxes of plastic parts and appliances, but an X-ray examination and inspection revealed 194 boxes containing 2.5 million cigarettes with a duty potential of $4.8 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The cigarettes were mix-loaded with other goods and concealed in the rear part of the container compartment.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officers have impounded the truck.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The maximum penalty for smuggling is a $2 million fine and seven years in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/images\/home\/Categories_generic_icons\/Health\/Health_14.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Customs officers arrested a truck driver at Lok Ma Chau control point today after finding suspected illicit cigarettes worth $6.8 million hidden in his vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The incoming container truck was declared to be carrying 192 boxes of plastic parts and appliances, but an X-ray examination and inspection revealed 194 boxes containing 2.5 million cigarettes with a duty potential of $4.8 million.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The cigarettes were mix-loaded with other goods and concealed in the rear part of the container compartment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Officers have impounded the truck.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The maximum penalty for smuggling is a $2 million fine and seven years in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29411","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\/29411","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29412,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29411\/revisions\/29412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}