Chinese border guards detained a Hong Kong
resident when they noticed he was moving a little
strange. The reason why he looked suspicious as
he walked is because he strapped 94 iPhones to
his body in hopes of smuggling them across the
border. Although the officials didn't find anything
suspicious in the man’s luggage, they then made
him walk through a metal detector, which produced
a “resounding” alarm. They discovered the iPhone
5, 5S, 6 and 6 Plus models wrapped in clear plastic
and taped to his chest, abdomen, thighs and
calves. The newspaper estimated the devices’ total
cost at £32,000. They weighed at least a 12kg.
While Apple’s iPhone is manufactured in China,
Beijing’s taxation policies make the device more
expensive on the mainland than in Hong Kong and
the west. A 16GB iPhone 6 sells in Beijing for £571;
in Hong Kong, it sells for for £477. Customs
officials discovered that the man was from Hong
Kong, and that he was a “typical smuggler” with a
record of past offences. The maximum penalty in
Hong Kong for exporting items without properly
declaring them is a £1.3m fine and seven years in
prison.
In the past month, customs officials in two main
Hong Kong-China border crossings uncovered 18
cases of smugglers strapping items to their bodies,
it was reported. They confiscated 282 iPhones,
4,088 SD cards, 840 USB thumb drives, and
hundreds of CPU chips.

Huzzling things!

Africans will not do such!