Recently, Guangzhou Customs launched a special campaign to crack down on smuggling cosmetics through cross-border e-commerce channels. One gang involving 11 suspects was destroyed, all the suspects were arrested. The case involved more than 20 categories of daily skincare products and cosmetics, valued at about 200 million yuan.
Previously, the Anti-smuggling Department of Guangzhou Customs, based on the case clues transferred by Qingyuan Customs, using newly developed system carried out “big data” modeling, and locked the varieties of imported goods of a cross-border e-commerce platform in Qingyuan, which did not conform to the characteristics of imported goods of normal cross-border e-commerce platform.
At the same time, Qingyuan Customs also found that the individual quota of cross-border e-commerce of the masses was used illegally. Combined with data monitoring analysis, it is suspected that there are illegal acts of cross-border e-commerce import.
Qingyuan Customs and Anti-smuggling Department of Guangzhou Customs quickly sorted out the clues they had, and combined with the analysis of “big data”. Several legal entities, shareholders and business people have been screened and highlighted using cross-border e-commerce channels for smuggling.
With the assistance of the Qingyuan Municipal Public Security Bureau, the customs officers of Guangzhou Customs dispatched 98 police officers, and they were divided into 13 action groups. They carried out a unified investigation in Shenzhen, Qingyuan and Dongguan. 11 suspects were arrested, and a number of suspect goods were seized at the scene. There were more than 1100 parcels, involving more than 20 kinds of daily skincare products and cosmetics.
Since the beginning of this year, the Customs has maintained a high pressure on cracking down on smuggling. From January to April, 3669 cases were filed, a year-on-year increase of 55.2%, cases value of 7.6 billion yuan.
Source:
广州海关破获2亿元跨境电商走私化妆品案 (Chinese)
