Tuesday 13 January 2015

A young man caught with 94 stolen iPhones wrapped around him at the airport


This man is very desperate... see stealing skills... what a way to steal. It was reported that a young man was pulled aside by Chinese customs officers when they noticed that his “gait was weird, with still joints and tense muscles, as if he was carrying a heavy load,” the state-run newspaper People’s Daily reported on Monday.
 Although the officials didn’t find anything suspicious in the man’s luggage, they made him walk
through a metal detector, which produced a loud  alarm, iPhone 5, 5S, 6 and 6 Plus models wrapped in clear plastic and taped to his chest, abdomen, thighs and calves were then discovered on him.. The newspaper estimated the devices’ total cost at £32,000. They weighed at least 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.
 Customs officials said the man was from Hong Kong and that he was a “typical smuggler” with a record of past offences, according to the People’s Daily. The maximum penalty in Hong Kong for exporting items without properly declaring them is a £1.3m fine and seven years in prison.



Source: Laila blog

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