Husband and wife used Macao as conduit for smuggling 3,000 designer label items; case still under investigation.
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Five arrested after officers observe traders from Hong Kong, Macao and mainland China handling cosmetic products and electronic gadgets.
Hong Kong resident suspected of being leader of gang carrying beauty products across the border; bank of CCTV cameras fails to deter authorities.
Eight non-resident workers’ stay permits cancelled as police seek to curb flow of unnecessary travellers in search of a fast buck.
After female parallel trader sparked Barrier Gate mass testing, and more than 35,000 negative results, teaching gets back to normal.
The Macao Customs Service said in a statement last night that its officers caught two local parallel traders earlier this week who were using a car parked in a public car park as a goods collection point with the intention of smuggling goods to Zhuhai on foot.
Fourteen people were caught on Tuesday for their alleged involvement in a parallel trading racket run by two shops in the Barrier Gate area where law enforcement officers seized more than 1,500 goods such as food, alcohol, medicine, beauty and cosmetic products worth about MOP 3.12 million.
The Macao Customs Service held a meeting at its headquarters with representatives from the Public Security Police and the Association of [mainland] Chinese Capital Employment Agencies (Macau) to discuss the issue of non-resident workers getting involved in parallel trading activities.
A haul of about 3,000 items worth about MOP 3.8 million, such as second-hand laptops and cosmetic products, were seized in Macao and Zhuhai on Tuesday after the two cities’ law enforcement agencies jointly busted an illegal parallel trading racket.
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