Guangzhou, February 23 (Xu Qingqing, Chen Lin, Pan Pan) According to the Guangdong Branch of the General Administration of Customs on the 23rd, in 2023, the anti-smuggling department of the customs in Guangdong Province will file and investigate a total of 2,186 smuggling cases, with a case value of 458800 million yuan, suspected of tax evasion 57200 million yuan.
From February to March 2023, Gongbei Customs cracked a case of smuggling cameras by a "water guest" gang. Photo courtesy of the Guangdong Branch of the General Administration of Customs.
According to the relevant person in charge of the Anti-Smuggling Bureau of the Guangdong Branch of the General Administration of Customs, last year, the customs and public security organs in Guangdong Province implemented the unified deployment of the General Administration of Customs and the Ministry of Public Security, carried out the "Escort 2023" joint special operation, and carried out 8 rounds of rolling crackdowns on duty-free smuggling on outlying islands. Among them, in February 2023, the Anti-Smuggling Bureau of Zhanjiang Customs launched a special crackdown and seized more than 800 duty-free cosmetics and foreign wines on Hainan Island, with a case value of 24 million yuan.
In November 2023, Hong Kong Customs, together with the Anti-Smuggling Bureau of Shenzhen Customs and the Guangzhou Municipal Public Security Narcotics Control Department, seized the goods in Hong Kong**. Photo courtesy of the Guangdong Branch of the General Administration of Customs.
While coordinating supervision services to facilitate customs clearance, the customs in Guangdong Province continue to improve the internal linkage mechanism of "risk control + anti-smuggling + on-site", continue to strengthen law enforcement cooperation with local public security organs and Hong Kong and Macao customs, and effectively improve the accuracy and intensity of cracking down on smuggling of "water passengers". From February to March last year, with the cooperation of the Anti-Smuggling Bureau of Shenzhen Customs, Gongbei Customs, together with the Public Security Bureau of the Guangdong-Macao In-Depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin and the Hengqin Entry-Exit Border Inspection Station, cracked a case of smuggling cameras by a "water guest" gang, with a value of 56.8 billion yuan.
In addition, the Guangdong Branch of the General Administration of Customs, together with the Guangdong Provincial Public Security Department, coordinated the anti-smuggling departments and anti-narcotics departments of the Customs in the province, and joined hands with the Hong Kong Customs to continue to carry out the anti-narcotics operation "Cloud Wars - Interrupt the Flow 2023" to combat cross-border drug smuggling. In November last year, Hong Kong Customs, together with the Anti-Smuggling Bureau of Shenzhen Customs and the Guangzhou Municipal Public Security Narcotics Department, detected a case of concealment of drugs in seafood shells in Hong Kong and seized **11 ton.
The Guangdong Branch of the General Administration of Customs said that in 2024, the customs in Guangdong Province will continue to carry out the "National Sword 2024" joint operation, continue to maintain a high-pressure situation of cracking down on smuggling, and guard the security of the country. (ENDS).
*: China News Network.