April 08, 2013

The Customs & Excise Department arrested seven people for smuggling almost 4,100kg in powdered formula today.
 
Five were arrested at Lo Wu Control Point with 20kg of formula. Two masterminds of the operation were also arrested in a Sheung Shui industrial building, when 4,050kg formula worth $1.1 million was seized.
 
The syndicate was moving the formula from a central store house in Hong Kong to the Mainland via the smugglers who travelled to the Mainland several times a day, bringing two tins or more of formula each time.
 
The three men and four women, aged 20 to 51, are all Hong Kong residents.