Five principals were sentenced in the final verdict of the case of transnational smuggling and export of ore worth 170 million yuan.

　　Nanning, China, March 5 (Xu Guichuan) Nanning Customs Anti-smuggling Bureau reported on the 5th that the Higher People’s Court of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region recently made a final ruling on a smuggling export ore case investigated by the Bureau’s Shuikou Customs Anti-smuggling Branch, and sentenced five principals, including Peng Motian, Fang Moming, Liao Moshen, Peng Mozhi and Zeng Moshou, to prison terms ranging from 13 to 10 years and fined RMB 5.1 million to RMB 3 million.

　　On April 11, 2020, Shuikou Customs Anti-smuggling Branch carried out centralized arrest under the unified deployment and command of Nanning Customs Anti-smuggling Bureau, knocked out a transnational smuggling export ore gang in one fell swoop and successfully arrested 7 suspects.

　　It has been found that since 2018, the gang has falsely reported high-value ores such as antimony ingots, ferrosilicon and micro-carbon ferrochromium purchased by Vietnamese people from China as low-value goods such as aluminum bars and wires, and declared them for export to the customs to avoid state taxes and seek illegal benefits. It was verified that the gang smuggled and exported antimony ingots, ferrosilicon and micro-carbon ferrochromium totaling 8,183.445 tons, with a case value of 170 million yuan. The case was listed as a second-level supervision case by the Anti-smuggling Bureau of the General Administration of Customs.

　　According to the Anti-smuggling Bureau of Nanning Customs, antimony is a specific mineral subject to protective mining by the state, and its export is controlled by the state. A large number of smuggled antimony products are exported, which not only brings great impact to regular trading enterprises, but also seriously affects the normal order of antimony products trade, and will also seriously weaken the right to speak and international competitiveness of China antimony industry in the international market, and harm the interests of the country and the people.

　　The gang smuggled the goods involved in the certificate out of the country by falsely reporting the name of the goods, and the amount of tax evasion was extremely large. According to the provisions of Article 153 of the Criminal Law of People’s Republic of China (PRC), "if the smuggled goods and articles evade the tax payable especially, or there are other particularly serious circumstances, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than ten years or life imprisonment, and shall also be fined not less than one time but not more than five times the tax payable, or their property shall be confiscated." The gang tried to take a "shortcut" to get rich and was finally severely punished by law.

　　The Anti-smuggling Bureau of Nanning Customs said that in the next step, the Anti-smuggling Bureau will continue to intensify the crackdown on the smuggling of resource-based goods, create a good business environment for regular trading enterprises, and safeguard national economic security. (End)