Harbin cracked 1.07 tons of ivory in mammoth ivory suspected smuggling cases
Luobei customs, which belongs to Harbin customs, cracked a case involving smuggling of mammoth ivory, woolly rhinoceros and Jade, and seized 1.07 tons of mammoth ivory, 72.75 kilograms of woolly rhinoceros and 1.11 tons of nephrite raw materials at one time. Taizhuang photo
Original title: Harbin Customs cracked a case involving smuggling mammoth ivory, woolly rhinoceros corners and Jade
Zhongxin.com, Harbin, April 11 (Reporter Liu Xiju from zhengzhuang) on the 11th, Harbin Customs released a message that the Luobei customs of Harbin Customs cracked a case involving smuggling mammoth ivory, woolly rhinoceros corners and Jade, the one-time detection of 1.07 tons of mammoth ivory, 72.75 kilograms of woolly rhinoceros and 1.11 tons of nephrite raw materials is a case with the largest number of mammoth ivory and woolly rhinoceros corners seized by Chinese customs in recent years.
Suspicious points of entry truck slipping
Luobei County is located in the northeast of Heilongjiang province, with Heilongjiang as the boundary and the Russian Jewish Autonomous prefecture across the river. Located in Mingshan Town, Luobei port has four seasons customs clearance and is China’s national first-class passenger and cargo port.
On the afternoon of February 16, a stake bed semitrailer car marked with the brand logo “ouman”, driven by GAO, left the ice channel and was about to drive to Hou inspection area through a 150-meter-long gentle slope section. Due to the ice and snow accumulated in the gentle slope section, the port staff scattered a layer of coal ash, which increased the friction force and prevented the vehicle from slipping out of control. The truck is 17 meters long, 2.5 meters wide and 3.5 meters high. The vehicle is fully loaded with yellow soybeans, and there is a serious skid phenomenon when driving uphill to Hou inspection area, the 150-meter uphill road took half an hour to enter the waiting area. The other five trucks of the same brand as “ouman” were also loaded with a considerable weight of yellow soybeans, which went smoothly in the uphill section of the route and passed in a few minutes. In the experience of customs officers, this can only explain one phenomenon, that is, the load weight of the slippery truck is obviously heavy.
Skidding truck now has dark cell
After hearing the situation, Song Changwu, the commissioner of Luobei customs, asked the supervision department to immediately issue a control instruction in accordance with relevant regulations to thoroughly inspect the six trucks of the same trade, yellow soybeans of the receiving units loaded by these six trucks are all one enterprise. Only through comparative analysis can relevant doubts be eliminated.
The six trucks were weighed electronic loadometer under the supervision of the on-site inspectors. The overall weight of the trucks driven by Gao was about 2 tons more than that of the other five trucks. After repeated investigation, the unloading items were not found to contain prohibited items. However, a new situation occurred when the six trucks that finished unloading the goods were weighed again by loadmeter. The weight of empty wagon driven by Gao was more than 2 tons more than that of the other five empty trucks.
On February 17, the customs officer of Luobei customs supervision department inspected the body of six trucks according to relevant regulations, and found that there were obvious old marks on the back lateral box of the truck driven by Gao and the box board in the toolbox, there is a big difference between the soil and dust in the box and other vehicles, which obviously does not conform to the characteristics of road transportation in winter. Moreover, the rear of the truck is tightly closed, and the distance from the ground of the whole bottom of the truck is obviously smaller than that of other vehicles, which is completely out of line with the convention. There are dark cell suspects in the rear of the trailer.
See-through vehicles found smuggled goods
On February 18, Luobei customs carried out VISEE car body inspection on the above six trucks with the help of the nearby Tongjiang customs’s “Tongfang see-through car body inspection equipment. After see-through inspection, important clues were found on two of the trucks. The trucks driven by Gao had dark cell interlayer, hiding a large number of massive items, suspected ivory items and other unidentified items, however, no dark cell entrance was found; Special dark cell were found under the second steel plate at the front of another truck and at the rear of the vehicle, but no smuggled goods were found hidden.
On February 19, at the customs supervision warehouse of Luobei port, the customs officers of Luobei and the police officers of Jiamusi customs anti-smuggling branch jointly carried out body cutting inspection on the vehicles suspected of smuggling. At 22 o’clock that night, the car body was cut, and dark cell of the car body and the hidden smuggled goods finally showed their true colors. After cutting, a total of 35 car bodies were found, including a large dark cell and 34 small dark cell. Among them, the largest dark cell is 11.5 m long, 1 m wide and 0.34 m high, with suspected mammoth ivory and woolly rhinoceros angles placed densely; 34 small dark cell are the same size, each 0.75 m long, 0.5 m wide and 0.1 m high, with large and small suspected jade raw materials respectively.
Smuggling cases emerge
On February 22, Jiamusi customs anti-smuggling branch entrusted the national professional appraisal agency to identify the smuggled goods involved. Tested by Guangdong gold and silver jewelry testing center, 353 pieces of suspected jade materials seized were nephrite raw materials, weighing 1.11 tons; Identified by the State Forestry Administration wildlife testing center, the 107 suspected ivory seized were all mammoth ivory, weighing 1.07 tons, and 37 suspected rhinoceros horn were woolly rhinoceros horns and weighing 72.75 kilograms.
Previously, the suspect Gao quickly escaped after learning that the truck he was driving was going to receive further inspection of the car body inspection equipment. On the one hand, the investigators of Jiamusi customs anti-smuggling bureau chased him online, and on the other hand, they inquired about his group of inbound truck drivers to find clues. On February 26, Gao MOU and the cargo owner Han Mou were captured in Jixi city. On that day, Jiamusi customs anti-smuggling branch detained Han and Gao.
After careful investigation by Jiamusi customs anti-smuggling bureau, facing LUSN hard evidence, the criminal suspect confessed to the fact of suspected smuggling crime. It has been found that in order to obtain illegal benefits, the criminal suspect Han conspired with others to purchase two trucks within the territory of our country and specially created dark cell in the body of the truck to contain smuggled goods, after that, he hired the criminal suspect Gao and others to drive trucks to smuggle a large amount of nephrite raw materials, mammoth ivory and woolly rhinoceros cents from the Russian Federation into China. His behavior has violated the provisions of the first paragraph of Article 153 of the Criminal Law of the People’s Republic of China, suspected of smuggling ordinary goods.
According to Song Changwu, the governor of Luobei customs, Luobei customs has always adhered to strict supervision while serving the local economic development efficiently, creating a good customs clearance order for import and export enterprises. In the next step, Luobei customs will conscientiously implement the decision-making arrangements of the General Administration of Customs and Harbin customs, and solidly carry out the joint special action of cracking down on smuggling “National Sword 2017” to protect the economic development of the port.
At present, the case is under further investigation.
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Luobei customs, which belongs to Harbin customs, cracked a case involving smuggling of mammoth ivory, woolly rhinoceros and Jade, and seized 1.07 tons of mammoth ivory, 72.75 kilograms of woolly rhinoceros and 1.11 tons of nephrite raw materials at one time. Original Title: ha