You’d think that after a 37-year-old woman was jailed for five weeks after being found with four boxes of baby milk formula at the border crossing between Hong Kong and Shenzhen, smugglers would be deterred to do so. Apparently not!
It’s a lucrative business after all, traders are paid about HK$160 for every seven cans of baby milk formula they bring into mainland China.
Luckily, customs officers have been making some stiff arrests, confiscating 450kg of milk powder today at the Lo Wu border checkpoint and arresting 64 people in a two-day raid on parallel traders.
Hopefully with harsher sentences and more raids, baby milk formula smuggling can be controlled!
Source: RTHK
Photo: AFP
