Ministry of Public Security： Since the beginning of this year, the case value of illegal and criminal cases such as smuggling has been 66.35 billion yuan.

The Ministry of Public Security held a press conference today (14th) to inform the national anti-smuggling departments of the effectiveness of measures to severely crack down on smuggling crimes. According to the press conference, since 2023, the national anti-smuggling department has filed a total of 2,520 illegal and criminal cases such as smuggling, with a case value of 66.35 billion yuan, which has continuously and effectively curbed the high incidence of smuggling crimes.

In cracking down on the smuggling of "foreign garbage" in accordance with the law, the "blue sky" special crackdown has been organized for seven consecutive years since 2017, and the smuggling activities such as hiding, false reporting, false reporting, dumping goods and bypassing customs clearance in freight channels have been implemented continuously, with high density, clustering and full chain crackdown, and the "foreign garbage" has been resolutely blocked out of the country.

In terms of cracking down on the smuggling of endangered animals and plants and their products in accordance with the law, the national anti-smuggling department has deployed special actions of "guarding" and "guarding" to resolutely and accurately crack down on the smuggling of endangered animals and plants and their products such as ivory, pangolin scales, mahogany, etc., and successively cracked a series of extraordinarily large smuggling projects of endangered animals and plants and their products, busted a number of smuggling criminal gangs at home and abroad, shut down a number of illegal online sales platforms, and investigated 2,130 smuggling crimes of endangered animals and plants and their products.

In the aspect of cracking down on duty-free "set purchase" smuggling in outlying islands in accordance with the law, the organization has established a "1+N" (Haikou Customs Anti-smuggling Bureau+other national customs anti-smuggling bureaus) joint prevention and control mechanism to crack down on duty-free "set purchase" smuggling in outlying islands in Hainan, focusing on promoting joint prevention and control of anti-smuggling in Hainan, Guangdong and Guangxi, and carrying out all-field coordination, all-round linkage, system-wide control and full-chain attack to form a joint prevention and control system for anti-smuggling in free trade ports.

In May this year, the Ministry of Public Security and the General Administration of Customs launched a joint special campaign of "Escort 2023" to severely crack down on the duty-free "set purchase" smuggling of Hainan’s outlying islands. In the past two years, a total of 518 cases and more than 2,000 administrative cases of duty-free "set purchasing" smuggling in Hainan’s outlying islands have been filed for investigation, with a case value of 2 billion yuan.

In addition, the anti-smuggling department severely cracked down on "water passengers" and cross-border smuggling at sea in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, severely cracked down on the smuggling of "guns and drugs" in accordance with the law, and resolutely guarded the security of the country. The anti-smuggling department also severely cracked down on the smuggling of key tax-related commodities and illegal and criminal activities involving entry-exit inspection and quarantine, and continuously optimized the business environment. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the national anti-smuggling departments have investigated and dealt with 1,894 serious smuggling crimes involving tax evasion of more than 10 million yuan, with a case value of 475.19 billion yuan and 101.87 billion yuan suspected of tax evasion. (CCTV reporter at the reception desk)
Chen Yu)