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 From Hong Kong's Information Services Department
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January 8, 2009
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Crime
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Customs arrest 4, seize discs worth $30m
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Customs & Excise Department

Customs officers have arrested four Mainlanders and seized about 2 million unmanifested CDs and VCDs worth about $30 million from a local fishing vessel off Beaufort Island.

 

Shortly before midnight on Tuesday, a Customs patrol launch stopped and searched the vessel which was leaving for the Mainland. The unmanifested goods were found in a false compartment underneath the kitchen.

 

Four men aged 32 to 55, including the captain and three crewmen, were arrested. The discs seized were not copyright-infringing copies.