Chinanews.com, Guangzhou, October 28 (Suo Youwei, Gu Junfeng, Chen Jiachao) The Guangdong Maritime Police Bureau notified on October 28 that the bureau had recently cooperated with the Smuggling Bureau of the Guangdong Provincial Public Security Department and the Anti-smuggling Bureau of the General Administration of Customs to launch the "Hurricane 295 "The project's network closure operation seized more than 500 tons of oil products suspected of smuggling, and successfully destroyed a product oil smuggling group that had been active in the Pearl River Estuary waters for a long time.
Coastal police arrested Chen Jiachao at the scene
The operation jointly dispatched more than 600 law enforcement officers and divided them into more than 50 operation groups to arrest. 35 suspects were arrested at the scene, and more than 500 tons of refined oil, 3 ships, and 8 tankers suspected of smuggling were seized on the spot. And 3 illegal oil decolorization points, seized a batch of oil pumping equipment, decolorization equipment and related certificates.
Photo by Gu Junfeng of the seized oil tanker
It is understood that the smuggling network set up by the gang is complete, using small ships to smuggle refined oil into the country without customs clearance. After being decolorized in Dongguan and other places, it is sold to 5 provinces and 14 cities in China.
After preliminary verification, the smuggling group was suspected of smuggling more than 40,000 tons of refined oil since 2019, the value of the case involved was about 300 million yuan, and the suspected tax evasion exceeded 100 million yuan.
This operation is the first successful case in which the Guangdong Coastal Police and the two anti-smuggling functional departments of the Customs and Public Security organs have simultaneously launched a combined operation, joint operations, operations, and case handling.
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