China News Service Dehong, July 7 (Chen Junchao, Li Kang) A reporter learned from the Ruili Exit-Entry Frontier Inspection Station in Yunnan on the 7th that when the police at the Nongdao Substation of the checkpoint recently launched a night patrol, they were in the village group of Mang Ai, Nongdao Town. More than 300 kilograms of smuggled American ginseng, worth about 120,000 yuan, were seized at the interchange of Helong Island Village.
The picture shows seized cargo suspected of American ginseng. Photo courtesy of Ruili Exit-Entry Frontier Inspection Station
In the early morning of July 2nd, when the police conducted a daily patrol on the front line of the border area of Ruili Exit and Entry Border Inspection Station, they found that suspicious personnel were loading goods to a tricycle parked on the border, and the police immediately stepped forward to intercept an examination. The sudden arrival of the civilian police caught the suspicious person who was loading the cargo by surprise, throwing away the goods and fleeing towards Myanmar. After verification, the discarded cargo was suspected to be American ginseng, with a total weight of more than 300 kilograms. It is a species of endangered wild plants and has been included in Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
At present, the case has been transferred to the local smuggling department.
The police reminded that smuggling and trafficking of endangered plants is an illegal act. Importing American ginseng requires an import and export permit issued by the National Endangered Species Import and Export Administration and proactively declare to the customs. If the illegal smuggling of endangered wild animals and plants and their products is serious, the Be held criminally responsible. (Finish)