Recently, Shanghai customs investigated 1 case that was about the
illegal carrying drugs of foreign passengersinto China. A Vietnamese Female from
Phnom Penh flew to Shanghai Pudong International Airport, was suspectedand
seized 2 packages of white powder in her backpack, which was identified as
cocaine, net weight 1452.06 G.The Paper learned that this is the Shanghai Customs
seized the first airport drug smuggling case, since December 2014to carry out
the special action against drug smuggling—"Purple Light".
On the morning of January 22, 2015, the Customs inspection official
of Shanghai PudongInternational Airport in the supervisionof the flight from
Cambodia Phnom Penh flew to Shanghai, found a big belly of Southeast Asian
women mixed in several Chinese tour together through the border. The woman
holdinga Vietnam passport, luggage is simple, just carry a backpack and two
bags, and only can speak simple English.
A Vietnamese pregnant woman with Language barrier, was alone flying
from Phnom Penh to Shanghai, completely consistent with the elements of a
high-risk travelers of carrying drugs.
The duty officer to raise vigilance, in the empty and scan her
backpack, X-ray image presented obviously suspicious shadow. Then seized two
packets of white powder from her backpack interlayer, the drug test showed a
positive reaction of cocaine, the net weight of 1452.06G.
After being confirmed that the woman has been pregnant for 8 months, is
recruited by drug trafficking group as a special crowd as“mules”. The case has
been handled by the Customs Anti-smuggling Department.
Since December 2014, for effective implementation of the customs
border security protection function, to effectively combat drug smuggling
crimes, the General Administration of customsconcentrated forces of the national
customs, carry out the special action to crack down on drug smuggling—"Purple
Light", for seven months.
Combined with the new trends and new law under the new situation of
drug smuggling, Shanghai Customs according to the characteristics of customsdistrict,
continuously enhance anti-smuggling efforts, and explore the effective way of
seizing drugs. Last year a total of 28 cases of smuggling drugs were investigated,
seized drugs 115.12 kg, growth of 7.69% and 1.6 times
respectively.