Customs of Hong Kong caught a gang accused of laundering and smuggling criminal proceeds. It is reported by South China Morning POST.
In the course of the staff, five people were arrested. According to law enforcement officers, in three months of criminal activity, the group washed and taken out of the city over $ 21 million. The money was sent from Hong Kong in Macao through the world’s longest bridge in the world about 55 kilometers.
It is reported that part of the money was washed away in one of the Macau casino. For the transport of funds on the bridge, the bandits hired couriers. When detention, customs officers seized $ 2.6 million from criminals, mobile phones and lists of remittances. Also, employees froze some suspected bank accounts.
Earlier in Russia, the customs officers of the Leningrad Region detained a truck from Poland, which transported vegetable origin in the fuel tank. The total cost of seized smuggling on preliminary estimates was 230 million rubles.