This is great news for those people that want to have their battery pack opened so they can use the batteries for other purposes... all you have to do is make it look like the battery pack has been tampered with and the customs will open it for you...
Rush Dougherty Tucson AZ > -----Original Message----- > From: EV [mailto:ev-boun...@lists.evdl.org] On Behalf Of brucedp5 via EV > Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2018 1:55 AM > To: ev@lists.evdl.org > Cc: brucedp5 > Subject: [EVDL] EVsmuggler: HK$9.4M$120k iPhone bust> hidden in BYD EV pack > > > > http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-law-and-crime/article/2146367/electric- > car-secret-compartment-used-smuggle > Electric car with secret compartment used to smuggle phones and smartwatches > from Hong > Kong to Shenzhen > 16 May, 2018 Clifford Lo > > [images > https://cdn2.i- > scmp.com/sites/default/files/styles/620x356/public/images/methode/2018/05/16/85501a46- > 58dc-11e8-a7d9-186ba932a081_image_hires_161901.JPG?itok=8j9SANms > > https://cdn1.i-scmp.com/sites/default/files/images/methode/2018/05/16/860fb0a4-58dc- > 11e8-a7d9-186ba932a081_1320x770_154539.JPG > One-third of the battery case at the bottom of the vehicle had been converted > into a secret > compartment. Photo: Handout ] > > Customs officers arrest five men and seize HK$8 million in electronics > > Crime in Hong Kong ... > > A cross-border smuggling ring that used an electric car to transport goods > from > Hong Kong > to Shenzhen to evade a hefty mainland tax was broken following the arrest of > five men and > the seizure of HK$8 million (US$1 > million) worth of electronics. > > Most of the haul, including mobile phones, smartwatches and computer hard > disks, > was > found in a hidden compartment in the battery case of the mainland brand BYD > electric car > when the vehicle was intercepted by customs officers for inspection at the > Shenzhen Bay > control point on Tuesday. > > The driver was arrested. > > In a follow-up operation, another four men, including the suspected > ringleader, > were picked > up during a raid on a flat in Yuen Long. > > Hong Kong and Shenzhen authorities smash HK$620 million iPhone smuggling > operation > > "It is the first time an electric vehicle was found to have been used in > smuggling goods across > the border," Assistant Superintendent Alan Lau Yau-lun of Customs' syndicate > crimes > investigation bureau said. > > He said about one-third of the battery case at the bottom of the vehicle had > been converted > into a secret compartment to hide the goods. > > The Post understands that the syndicate had been in operation for less than a > month. > > Initial investigations showed the group used the Yuen Long flat as its > storage > facility before > transporting the smuggled goods into a cargo yard in the same district and > loading them into > the electric car. > > Customs officers began investigating the syndicate about two weeks ago. > After identifying the core members of the group and locating its storage > centre > and loading > bay, customs officers intercepted the Shenzhen-bound electric car at the > control > centre at > about noon on Tuesday and raided the flat and cargo yard three hours later ... > > A total of 1,576 mobile phones, 228 smartwatches and 45 hard disks were > seized. > The haul > was worth about HK$8 million but could be sold for HK$9.4 million on the > mainland after > taking the tax into account. > > As of Wednesday afternoon, the five Hongkongers, aged between 26 and 48, were > being > held for questioning. None of them had been charged. > > In Hong Kong, importing and exporting unmanifested cargo carries a maximum > penalty of a > seven-year jail term and a HK$2 million fine. > > Suspected smuggling activities can be reported to Customs' 24-hour hotline at > 2545?6182. > [© 2018 South China Morning Post] > > > > > For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: > http://evdl.org/archive/ > > > {brucedp.neocities.org} > > -- > Sent from: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/ > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. > http://www.avg.com
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