China News Service, Hong Kong, August 25 (Reporter Wang Jiacheng) Hong Kong Customs held a press conference on the 25th to inform that the Customs took enforcement action code-named "Interceptor" from August 19 to 23 and successfully detected a suspected "money laundering" "The case involved about 170 million yuan (Hong Kong dollars, the same below), and 5 men were arrested.
The five arrested men were between 40 and 43 years old, including three cross-border vehicle drivers and two money changers in charge. They were suspected of "money laundering" and making false declarations to the customs.
Senior Supervisor of the Organized Crime Investigation Division of Hong Kong Customs, Hu Weijun, said that when customs officers analyzed cross-border passenger cash declarations in May, they found that some of the declarations were suspicious, including the unknown origin of the cash and a large amount of cash leaving the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge in a short time. Hongkong.
The customs subsequently conducted an in-depth investigation into this, and suspected that a "money laundering" group was involved.
The "money laundering" group hired cross-border car drivers to bring a large amount of unidentified cash to Macau and Zhuhai via the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge. The amount involved was as high as 170 million yuan since May.
The Customs subsequently launched special enforcement operations, intercepting two exiting vehicles on the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, raided three residential units in the New Territories, and searched a money changer in Kwun Tong.
In the meantime, 20 million yuan in cash was seized in one of the outbound vehicles.
At present, the customs has frozen the bank deposits of about 580,000 yuan of relevant persons for further investigation, and it is not ruled out that more people will be arrested.
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