The price differences between China and Hong Kong makes it is common to try to pass consumer electronics equipment illegally. And this is what our protagonist tried today. His intention was to go through the customs of the city of Shenzhen with 20 kilos of iPhone attached to his body.
The current record is held by a man who in 2015 tried to pass 146 iPhone from Hong Kong to China. However, the arrested woman in our story was carrying 102 units of the Apple mobile. But how did the customs agents find out?
The woman hunted by the Chinese authorities he had the 102 attached to his body smartphones and 15 luxury watches. The total weight of the merchandise was 20 kilograms. And, of course, this huge amount of material bulked more than necessary under the clothes. Apparently, the smuggler had very slender arms and legs for her bulky torso. This is when all the alarms went off. After the pertinent search, voilà! there were the Cupertino mobiles. Packages of 4 units were formed. All of them hooked with electrical tape and attached to the woman's body through a girdle.
As we have already mentioned, it is not the first high-profile attempt to illegally transfer technological material to China. Y the iPhone is a device that is usually the object of desire in any part of the world. Now, is it really worth risking getting caught by customs officers?
As indicated from the portal Kotaku, the price difference is high. Between the special administrative region of Hong Kong and the Asian country there can be a 30 percent difference. So when it comes to selling it on the black market, the profits are not peccadillo. In other words, it can be thousands of dollars to change.