Customs officers have arrested four men after finding, for the first time, goods smuggled in altered fuel tanks and battery cases on lorries.
Officers found 432 smartphones and about 50kg of silver beads in seven packs concealed in a false compartment inside a lorry's fuel tank at Lok Ma Chau Control Point yesterday.
The seizure value amounted to about $360,000. The 48-year-old male driver was arrested.
Officers then searched a shed in Tai Po and seized goods totalling $4.43 million, including smartphones, silver bars and beads, smartphone screens and memory cards. Two men aged 35 and 36 were arrested.
Earlier this month, Customs officers found 248 smartphones, worth about $1 million, concealed in false compartments inside two battery cases of a lorry at Lok Ma Chau and arrested the 48-year-old male driver.