Shenzhen Customs Ji-mineral resources, smuggling chain-breaking
  An active for a long time in the Pearl River Delta region, involving the illegal smuggling, theft of important national mineral resources, involving overseas buyers and domestic cargo, freight forwarding and customs clearance company's industry-wide collusion chain of smuggling of mineral resources has been exposed. According to Shenzhen Customs to disclose, said the Customs anti-smuggling department nearly half a year time continuous detection of 25 important national mineral export smuggling series of cases, involving the value of 215 million, mineral products 16.4 thousand tons, tax 36 million yuan, 33 persons arrested in the crime were arrested.
     According to Shenzhen Customs anti-smuggling department claimed that the code 2009 on the 1st crackdown, the Shenzhen Customs anti-smuggling department to send 300 police officers, a continuous mineral export smuggling cases detected 25 cases, of which 24 cases of criminal cases, and seized 998 containers suspected of smuggling involved minerals 16.4 thousand tons, 33 suspects have been arrested persons, preliminary estimates suggest the case of the value of 215 million, tax-related 36 million yuan. At present, the Customs anti-smuggling department has been prosecuted, 8 principal, and some of the suspects has an MA degree and the American company executives working background, was suspected of rare earth, ferromanganese and other countries important mineral resources are not controlled through the false common materials smuggling export.
     According to reports, the special action to fight private, mineral smuggling, has been effectively curbed. Mineral species involved in Shenzhen Customs District, the volume of exports dropped sharply from June to July of this year, silico-manganese, ferromanganese, electrolytic manganese and other total exports of 12 categories of key minerals plunged 73.6%.
     Smuggling evade the supervision of the Internet
     In recent years, rare earth, ferromanganese and other mineral resources in the international market, strong demand for lucrative smuggling of mineral resources and stimulate domestic and foreign smugglers, the domestic rare smuggling. But the low-cost mineral smuggling, leading to legitimate state-owned enterprises in the Mainland huge loss of foreign customers, of which a considerable part from the illegal exploitation of our country will become a serious phenomenon of destruction of resources.
     This year in March, received a clue Anti-smuggling Bureau of Shenzhen Customs, said the Shenzhen × island's suspicion of the existence of smuggling ferrosilicon and ferromanganese. The project team investigates police officers where the domestic owner of the Guangzhou Hao Zhao × × companies, including freight forwarding companies, customs clearance company's 13 criminal suspects involved in the case. According to the investigation, suspected of smuggling, Zhao × mineral owner in the United States with the company executives, highly educated, and in Hong Kong with the company, proficiency in foreign trade of knowledge, to take the Internet, "layers of subcontracting," false Name means of smuggling, evading supervision. Subsequently, the anti-smuggling bureau, within one month to follow it successfully detected four mineral smuggling cases, amounting to more than 1100 yuan.
     Zhao × confessed that the smuggling of minerals is an open secret within the industry, causing the anti-smuggling team's attention, and quickly within the scope of Shenzhen Warehouse 69 community carry out the "carpet-style" Mo Pai.
     Industry smuggling chain surface
     According to the survey, there is a PRD involving offshore buyers, domestic cargo, freight forwarding and customs clearance company's industry-smuggling chain, specialized exploitation of smuggling, theft, madness, State Key mineral resources. According to Shenzhen Customs anti-smuggling department claimed that the sources of minerals involved in nine provinces in the Mainland nearly 20 cities and counties in the illegal exploitation of minerals are the key national limit, as much more than 780 enterprises, more than 180 reporting units in connection with the case , there are serious risks for potential illegal smuggling and trade. 

 
                                              2009-11-6