Xinhua News Agency, Jinan, Oct. 9 (Reporter Xi Min) Qingdao Customs said on the 9th that the Qingdao Liuting Airport Customs under the jurisdiction of Qingdao Customs arrested two passengers smuggling gold out of the country. 42 bars of gold products, weighing 7,900 grams and worth more than 2.1 million yuan, were seized at the scene. This is the largest gold smuggling case seized by Qingdao Customs in recent years.

According to Qingdao Customs, on August 28 this year, at the departure site of passengers on a flight from Qingdao to Tokyo, Japan, two female passengers entered the customs inspection area a few minutes apart, chose the non-declaration channel to clear customs, and did not declare any items to the customs.

Customs officers in their checked baggage X-ray machine inspection, found 4 checked luggage there are high-density metal products, the image is still abnormal when the review. In the X-ray machine inspection of the empty suitcases, it was found that the pull rod side of the four suitcases were suspected to contain high-density metal products.

Then, Qingdao Liuting Airport customs officers and anti-smuggling police opened the rod box, found hidden in the rod with plastic wrapped yellow strip metal 42, customs anti-smuggling police immediately evidence, weighing. After interrogation, the two suspects confessed that they planned to smuggle gold products to Japan on the flight.

After a preliminary investigation by Qingdao Customs, the two suspects, who did not know each other, were instructed by others to hide the bars of gold in a rod, trying to evade customs supervision and smuggling out of the country. At present, the case is under further investigation.

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