Macau Customs Service (SA) Operational Management Department Acting Chief José Pou Ka Meng told reporters that four local residents, comprising two female traders and two male warehouse workers, were arrested yesterday for their alleged involvement in parallel trading at a warehouse in a building in Rua Dois do Bairro Vá Tai.
Pou made the remarks after inviting the media to witness customs officers busting the parallel trading warehouse near the Barrier Gate area.
Pou said that during the bust, customs officers seized around 3,000 mobile devices worth about six million patacas.
According to Pou, a local woman was stopped and searched by customs officers at the Barrier Gate border checkpoint when she was leaving Macau and the officers found four mobile devices on her with the receipt proving that she was carrying goods for others. Under questioning, the woman claimed that she had received 100 patacas for taking the devices from Macau to the mainland, adding that she picked up the goods at the parallel trading warehouse, Pou said.
Pou said that based on the woman’s statement, customs officers went to the warehouse to investigate, where no import documents could be found for the goods stored there. That’s why, Pou said, the customs officers concluded that the goods were probably brought to Macau from nearby regions.
Macau Customs Service Operational Management Department Acting Chief José Pou Ka Meng talks to reporters about customs officers’ operation targeting a parallel trading warehouse near the Barrier Gate yesterday. Photo courtesy of TDM
