The General Administration of Customs confirmed that the suspected smuggling of 114,000 tons of sugar was worth about $68.4 million

CCTV news: January 1, the General Administration of Customs organized Nanning, Shijiazhuang and other places of customs to carry out a special operation to combat the smuggling of sugar, one fell out of four specialized smuggling gangs, confirmed suspected of smuggling 114,000 tons of sugar.
Nanning, Shijiazhuang and other places of customs anti-smuggling departments deployed more than 110 police forces, simultaneously in Guangxi, Hebei, Zhejiang and other places to carry out arrest operations, successfully arrested 10 suspects, in one fell spnophm suspected of falsely reporting the name of the smuggling sugar gang 4, on-site seizure of 675 tons of sugar involved in the case, freezing more than 40 accounts involved in the case.
in Qinzhou, Guangxi Province, reporters saw suspected smuggling of sugar piled up throughout the warehouse, these white sugar packaging is printed with the words of Thai origin.
After investigation, since May 2018, the suspect Liang, Liao and others conspired with domestic cargo owners, through the general trade channels to falsely report the name of the goods, the imported sugar declared as candy premixed powder, to avoid the quota of imported sugar, smuggled imported sugar from the port shore of Qinzhou, Guangxi, about 114,000 tons, the case value of about 68.4 million yuan.
It is understood that just past 2019, the national customs anti-smuggling department opened a total of 83 cases of sugar smuggling crimes, the case value of 1.39 billion yuan, suspected tax evasion of 970 million yuan, an increase of 23.9%, 1.28 times, 2.27 times, the data record high.