Tax officers just now detained two men in Hong Kong in an “Anti-Smuggling Operation”. They were attempting to traffic ten years old GPUs and over 600 lbs. (272.15kg) of live lobsters, supposedly.
In April, Hong Kong tax officers described through PCMag that they captured “about 280 kilograms of unmanifested live lobsters and 70 pieces of unmanifested high-value computer display cards” after a caravan confirmed empty-bellied at the Zhuhai Macao Bridge Hong Kong Port. Together the van driver and the person along for the ride were detained and moved into captivity.
The accuses were expected to considering for unload the items and crustacean in Macau. You be able to clearly view from the pictures, the graphic cards and lobsters were covered in spotless packing. The graphic cards in enquiry were identify as Nvidia Quadro K2200 which was released in 2014 and retail price was $160. I surprise why somebody would take the risk of trafficking these, believing these are currently very old GPUs and just not suitable for gaming or mining nowadays.
Tax officers stated that the enquiry is continuing and have assessed the market place worth of unannounced items and shellfishes to be “about $6,00,000” that I am supposing is in Hong King Dollar. This is not the first case that tax officials have stopped graphic cards runners that tries to arrive China. In year 2021, the Hong Kong Custom Officials and Excise tax Division grabbed three hundred CMP 30HX cards from a fish boat with an approximated worth of $2,17,000.
And let’s not disremember almost the notorious CPU Pregnant Smuggler, who faked to be expectant and hid two hundred Alder Lake processors in a prosthetic abdomen. In case the two accuses are discovered responsible of trafficking so they could end up in jail for up to seven years and a highest charge of $2 million.
