Last year, the Risk Management Office of Gongbei Customs investigated the goods carried by passengers at Gongbei Port, and found that the agent of "Haitao" in Macao was suspected of smuggling diamonds and other goods. After tracking the line, the bureau locked three online stores involved. On February 20th, the Anti-smuggling Bureau of Gongbei Customs launched an arrest operation. First, the suspect surnamed Chen was arrested at the entry hall of Gongbei Port, and then Xu Shi and his wife were arrested. On the spot, diamonds and diamond rings worth 446,000 yuan were seized in the suspect's house.
In addition, on the evening of March 3, the anti-smuggling police arrested a Hong Kong female college student surnamed Gu in the entry lobby of Shenzhen Bay Port, and seized three diamond rings, three loose diamonds and 1 rings in her bag. The boss Shen Shi and his wife behind Gu's smuggling were subsequently arrested.
It is reported that smuggled diamonds are purchased from the Blue Nile Diamond website, the world's largest online jewelry retailer. Because the buyer's receiving address is in the mainland, the seller has to pay an extra tax of 17%, so the three websites involved in the case take "tax exemption" as their solicitation, take Hong Kong and Macao as their receiving addresses, and then hire students and laborers from both places to smuggle diamonds to the mainland, and then deliver them to the buyer by express delivery in the mainland.
After investigation, the three online shops involved in the case have thousands of transactions every year, and each smuggled 1 diamond can earn 260 to 1200 yuan. At present, the Anti-smuggling Bureau of Gongbei Customs has taken criminal measures against 10 persons involved. According to the investigators, most of the people involved are well-educated and well-paid. Three of them are masters of prestigious schools and two are managers of two famous listed companies.