The Macau Customs Service said in a statement on Saturday that its officers busted two separate smuggling cases on the previous day.
The first case happened at the Macau checkpoint of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (HZMB), while the second case occurred at the airport, according to the statement.
In the first case on Friday morning, customs officers intercepted a Hong Kong woman entering Macau at the Macau checkpoint of the delta bridge. They put her shopping trolley through an X-ray scanner, which showed that “suspicious” items were in the trolley. The customs officers seized 22 kilogrammes of dried fish maw valued at about HK$30,000 that did not have sanitary inspection clearance, the statement said, adding that the woman told the customs officers that she merely intended to use the fish maw herself.
This handout photo provided by the Macau Customs Service on Saturday shows the 22 kilogrammes of dried fish maw seized by customs officers on Friday.
