The first case of the Anti-Smuggling Year Customs cracked down on four sugar smuggling gangs during New Year's Day

On January 1, 2020, under the unified command of the Anti-Smuggling Bureau of the General Administration of Customs, the Nanning Customs Anti-Smuggling Bureau and the Shijiazhuang Customs Anti-Smuggling Bureau, with the strong support of the local public security organs, dispatched more than 110 police officers to carry out intensive arrests in Guangxi, Hebei, Zhejiang and other places. Successfully arrested 10 suspects, one shot off suspected false name smuggling sugar gang 4, on-site seized 675 tons of sugar involved in the case, frozen more than 40 accounts involved in the case, played the 2020 joint special operation of the "first shot."
the lead of the case is the customs business unit to accurately capture the smuggling risk, handed over to the anti-smuggling department to conduct research and joint investigation.
After investigation, since May 2018, the suspect Liang, Liao and others conspired with domestic cargo owners to declare imported sugar as candy premixed powder through general trade channels, to avoid imported sugar quotas, smuggling about 114,000 tons of imported sugar from the port shore of Qinzhou, Guangxi, with a value of about 68.4 million yuan, suspected of tax evasion of about 37.4 million yuan.
Sugar is the necessities of people's daily life, is an important strategic material related to the national economy and people's livelihood, the national customs will combat sugar smuggling as the "national sword" series of joint special operations of the focus of the fight content, through a combination of special strikes and centralized rectification, always maintain a high-pressure situation, and effectively safeguard China's agricultural strategic security and the interests of the people.
China is one of the world's major sugar consumption market, in recent years, due to domestic and foreign sugar prices continue to hang upside down and maintain a large difference, and China's sugar there is a large demand gap, sugar smuggling situation is more serious, serious impact on the interests of the vast number of sugar farmers, affect the healthy development of the sugar industry, endanger China's agricultural strategic security, disrupt the national economic order.
2019, the national customs anti-smuggling departments closely focused on sugar and other outstanding smuggling issues, fully implemented a special crackdown, solidly promoted comprehensive governance, and achieved remarkable results.
First, adhere to the work strategy of "keeping the focus, taking out the nests and fighting the gangs", take effective measures to strengthen border control, and crack down on illegal and criminal acts such as smuggling sugar and frozen goods through the southwest land border, the southeast coast, the Beibu Gulf, the Bohai Bay and the offshore unsealed areas.
is to strengthen communication with trade associations such as the Sugar Association, pay close attention to the trend of "northward" drift of sugar smuggling, and strengthen intelligence gathering.
Thye is to deepen the "two-headed, dig behind the scenes", through the market sales link to find clues, follow the line of deep digging, joint local public security, coast guard, transportation, railways, market supervision and other departments to carry out comprehensive governance, strengthen the transport, warehousing, sales links of the inventory and rectification, and effectively protect the people's "safety at the dinner table."
From January to December 2019, the national customs anti-smuggling department opened 83 cases of sugar smuggling crimes, with a value of about 1.4 billion yuan, and suspected tax evasion amounted to nearly 1 billion yuan, an increase of 23.9%, 1.28 times and 2.27 times, respectively, year-on-year.
through sustained high-pressure severely, the number of illegal imports and circulation of sugar in China plummeted, customs and other law enforcement departments of the fight against the effectiveness of the Chinese Sugar Association and related industries enterprises fully affirmed.
Next, the Customs will carry out a joint special operation to combat smuggling "National Sword 2020" as a starting point, carry out in-depth anti-smuggling work to ensure the safety of the national agricultural industry, ensure the national strategy of rural revitalization, and safeguard the safety of the people's table.