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According to the report (by reporter Cui Ningning and correspondent Su Mage with photography) two days ago, Shenzhen Customs invited the media to visit Luohu Port. The reporters found that some passengers used shoe soles to conceal Apple smartphones, and some water guests (smugglers) even rented children to pretend as a family for collective smuggling.
Children rented for 200 yuan per day for smuggling
At around 3 PM the previous day, in front of the customs channel for Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan passengers, customs officers were randomly checking the luggage of passengers. A customs officer told the reporters that they had to pre-analyze the risks to identify the most likely water guests for inspection. "Some passengers travel back and forth up to eight times a day, which is definitely abnormal."
At this time, a woman was pushing a stroller with two men carrying bulging bags nearby. The customs officer recognized that this woman had been caught as a water guest before, so he stopped these four people. Upon inspection, it was found that there were 14 Apple smartphones in the stroller. Moreover, from their luggage, another 15 Apple smartphones, 5 bottles of wine, and hundreds of discs were discovered, valued at over ten thousand yuan.
The customs officer at the passenger inspection channel said, "Look, the surnames on these four people's documents are all different, obviously not a family." To evade customs inspections, the smuggling methods of water guests are ever-changing. Some pretend to be couples, some pretend to be pregnant, and this "family" is also temporarily assembled. What surprised the reporters was that the child in the stroller who was less than a year old was "rented." "Water guests give money to the child's parents, about 200 yuan a day, using this to smuggle goods via the stroller," revealed the truth by the Luohu Customs official.
Smartphones hidden in shoes to pass through customs
It is understood that the reason why water guests have been repeatedly dealt with but still persist is due to the constant emergence of new smuggling methods. Specialized smuggling tools are also being innovated. Just a few days ago, a passenger dug out a metal layer in the shoe sole to hide 4 smartphones.
In addition to these, water guest groups continue to absorb new faces to reduce the chances of being caught. At the same time, the division of labor is becoming increasingly refined. There are dedicated people "watching the wind" to promptly inform others, and others take the opportunity to unreasonably trouble customs officers or other passengers, disrupting the order of passage to cover for other "water guests" to pass through.
The number of water guests is on the rise
According to Shenzhen Customs, about 20,000 water guests are active daily at various ports in Shenzhen. It is understood that in the past, water guests were mainly Hong Kong residents, but in recent years, the number of mainland water guests has been increasing continuously. Last year, Shenzhen Customs Area detected 5,377 administrative smuggling cases and 130 criminal smuggling cases in the passenger inspection channel. Items such as smartphones were seized, totaling a case value of 192 million yuan.
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