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Shenzhen Customs busts 1,000 bottles of smuggled Penfolds wine
Shenzhen Customs has seized a smuggled case of premium wine worth 1.5 million RMB. The lot consisted of Australian Penfolds and French First Growths including bottles from Château Margaux and Château Lafite.
According to Shenzhen Customs, they seized a case of suspected smuggled red wine in the freight import channel with an estimated value of 1.5 million RMB on 11 February.
The batch, imported from Hong Kong, was declared as Chilean red wine through Shenzhen Bay Port. However, after a Customs inspection, it was revealed that the actual import quantity was not the same as declared.
The undeclared wines included more than 1,000 bottles of Australian Penfolds red wine, as well as more than 100 bottles of French first-growths such as Margaux and Lafite.
In July 2021, another huge batch of smuggled wine attempted to enter mainland China from Hong Kong through freight channels. The Shenzhen Liantang Customs seized the suspected smuggled cache including 4,174 bottles of red wines and Champagnes of different brands such as Lafite, Mouton, Penfolds, and whisky, with an estimated total or around RMB 18 million.
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