CCTV News: Recently, the General Administration of Customs released the top ten typical cases of combating smuggling in 2024. In 2024, the national customs anti-smuggling department carried out in-depth joint action of "National Gate Sword 2024" to severely crack down on tax-related smuggling in non-custody areas, Hainan's offshore island duty-free "buying agent" smuggling, involving free trade pilot zones and special customs supervision areas, smuggling of guns and bullets, foreign garbage, endangered species and their products, smuggling of key channels, key areas, and key commodities, etc., achieved outstanding results, and made positive contributions to serving and ensuring high-quality development.

A total of 5,719 illegal and criminal cases such as smuggling were investigated throughout the year, including 3,687 tax-related smuggling crimes, with a case value of 90.56 billion yuan, and 2,032 non-tax-related, prosecutor-related and smuggling-related crimes. In addition, customs nationwide filed 30,959 cases of smuggling, with a case value of 8.43 billion yuan, and 67,595 cases of violations and other illegal acts were filed, with a case value of 32.82 billion yuan.

1. Huangpu Customs Anti-smuggling Bureau’s “HP2024-05” service guarantees the construction of a free trade pilot zone to combat false reporting of electronic products smuggled in a trade nature

The gang involved uses the controlled processing and trade contract manual to report electronic products such as integrated circuits that should have been taxed in general trade as duty-free imports, and “flying materials” are smuggled and sold to domestic customers. verified 1.87 billion electronic products such as smuggled integrated circuits, with a case value of 22.92 billion yuan.

2. Shenzhen Customs Anti-Smuggling Bureau "Sea-related No. 1" cracks down on maritime smuggling and smuggling cases

The gang involved recruits red wine, electronic products, frozen products and other goods abroad, and smuggled into the country through maritime smuggling, with a case value of 4 billion yuan.

3. The Anti-smuggling Bureau of Jiangmen, Xiamen and Nanning Customs Anti-smuggling Bureau cracked down on the "7.11" case of maritime smuggling refined oil.

The gang involved used "China-Pakistan" to purchase diesel in the high seas and then smuggled into the country. Verify that 100,000 tons of diesel are smuggled, with a case value of 1 billion yuan.

4. Shantou Customs Anti-Smuggling Bureau "escort SJ-02" to crack down on the smuggling case of Hainan's off-island duty-free "buying agent" smuggling case

The gangs involved in the case recruited social personnel to apply the Hainan off-island duty-free quota, and smuggled high-end foreign wine through "off-island self-pickup" and "return to the island self-pickup" to make profits after secondary sales, with a case value of 84.33 million yuan.

5. Guangzhou Customs Anti-smuggling Bureau "Zhisheng 01" cracked down on "watermen" smuggling natural beef yellow and falsely issued special value-added tax invoices

After purchasing natural beef yellow overseas, the gang involved in the case smuggled from Shenzhen and Zhuhai through "watermen". In addition, they used their identity to issue special value-added tax invoices to deduct the tax amount of the special value-added tax invoices for sales items when selling smuggled beef yellow. The case value of part of the smuggling was 2.36 billion yuan, and the total price tax was 5.51 billion yuan.

6. The case of the Anti-smuggling Bureau of Manzhouli Customs cracking down on the smuggling of precious animal products

The case of using incoming trucks to conceal precious animal products was seized, and a batch of Saiga antelope horns hidden at the bottom of the carriages of two incoming trucks and in multiple concealed cabins of the cockpit were seized on the spot.

7. The case of the Shanghai Customs Anti-Smuggling Bureau cracking down on waste smuggling

The case of smuggling waste from freight channels for fake product names was seized, and a total of 2,674 tons of solid waste such as plastic debris, landfills, etc. were seized.

8. Kunming Customs Anti-smuggling Bureau’s “12.28” series of cases of drug smuggling trucks on the border

36 cases of smuggling drugs using truck bodies and hiding goods were seized, and 418 kilograms of drugs were seized. Among them, on April 24, 188 kilograms of methamphetamine hidden in pumpkins were seized at the Menglong Port on the Sino-Myanmar border.

9. Nanjing Customs Anti-Smuggling Bureau’s “5.29” Case of smuggling controlled items

The company involved in the case smuggled 740 tons of zirconia, with a case value of 34.91 million yuan.

10. The series of cases of the anti-smuggling and obscene books cracking down on obscene books was launched. There were 9 criminal cases filed, 21 suspects were arrested, and 5 gangs smuggled using three channels such as mail, travel inspection, and sea, blocking the trafficking and dissemination of 25,299 obscene books.