Marine Police arrested eight men and seized $10 million worth of suspected smuggled goods east of South Ninepin Island early this morning.

At about 7am, officers of the Small Boat Division stopped a cargo vessel off South Ninepin Island with eight Hong Kong men onboard.

About 400 boxes of computer components including hard disc drives, laptops, projectors and computer chips with a total market value of more than $10 million was found in the vessel.

The crew could not produce a manifest for inspection so the eight men, aged between 32 and 50, were arrested for attempting to export unmanifested cargo.