With copper, iron-ore, soybeans, and nickel all tough to carry when you need liquidity from your commodity-financing deals; it appears the Chinese people have turned to more spectaculr methods of moving 'wealth'. As The South China Morning Post reports, just week after a man was stopped at the China-Hong-Kong border with 4 kilograms of gold in his shoes, customs officers caught a man *smuggling more than 7000 diamonds in plastic bags in his underwear.* The tell, *officers noticed he was walking in a pculair manner*.
Via The South China Morning Post,
*A man from Hong Kong was caught at a checkpoint at Shenzhen trying to smuggle more than 7,000 diamonds in his underwear, *according to a mainland media report.
The man was stopped at the Shenzhen Bay crossing last Thursday after *customs officers noticed he was walking in a peculiar manner*, the Guangzhou Daily said.
Officers searched him and found a small plastic bag in his underwear containing thousands of small diamonds, semi-finished stones and gold jewellery.
*The report said customers officers spent several hours counting 7,443 small diamonds, plus 10 pieces of jewellery weighing about 130 grams.*
Anti-smuggling officers are investigating.
*Another Hong Kong man was caught at the Lo Wu crossing in January trying to smuggle 4kg of gold in his shoes*, according to the Southern Metropolis Daily newspaper.
Maybe he would have made it if he wore the diamonds like this?
However, this Chinese gentleman has nothing on a female smuggler entering Toronto (from Trinidad):
The RCMP disclosed that* more than 10,000 diamonds were found inside the body of 66-year-old Helena Freida Bodner*, who arrived on a flight from Trinidad, but cannot confirm how the diamonds got into her body.
Seems diamonds are a smuggler's best friend, as the Shanghaiist notes, as undesirable as diamonds in your underpants seem...
is *still a preferable alternative to those Taiwanese smugglers who were arrested while holding 24 pieces of gold up each of their rectums last July*.
Reported by Zero Hedge 5 hours ago.
Via The South China Morning Post,
*A man from Hong Kong was caught at a checkpoint at Shenzhen trying to smuggle more than 7,000 diamonds in his underwear, *according to a mainland media report.
The man was stopped at the Shenzhen Bay crossing last Thursday after *customs officers noticed he was walking in a peculiar manner*, the Guangzhou Daily said.
Officers searched him and found a small plastic bag in his underwear containing thousands of small diamonds, semi-finished stones and gold jewellery.
*The report said customers officers spent several hours counting 7,443 small diamonds, plus 10 pieces of jewellery weighing about 130 grams.*
Anti-smuggling officers are investigating.
*Another Hong Kong man was caught at the Lo Wu crossing in January trying to smuggle 4kg of gold in his shoes*, according to the Southern Metropolis Daily newspaper.
Maybe he would have made it if he wore the diamonds like this?
However, this Chinese gentleman has nothing on a female smuggler entering Toronto (from Trinidad):
The RCMP disclosed that* more than 10,000 diamonds were found inside the body of 66-year-old Helena Freida Bodner*, who arrived on a flight from Trinidad, but cannot confirm how the diamonds got into her body.
Seems diamonds are a smuggler's best friend, as the Shanghaiist notes, as undesirable as diamonds in your underpants seem...
is *still a preferable alternative to those Taiwanese smugglers who were arrested while holding 24 pieces of gold up each of their rectums last July*.
Reported by Zero Hedge 5 hours ago.