Smuggler caught on China- Hong Kong border with 96 iPhones strapped to his body

#iPhoneChina #ChinaCustoms #HongKong It was the gait of the man that alerted the police and, on checking, it was discovered that he had 96 iPhones strapped to his body - total cost of the goods was around £32,000 and the total weight in the region of at least 12-Kg.
The iPhones were strapped to his body like a hi-tech suit of armor and Chinese customs officers at the Futian border crossing pulled him aside when they noticed that his “gait was weird, with still joints and tense muscles, as if he was carrying a heavy load.”
It seems he was wearing a red athletic shirt and black athletic trousers, and was carrying a couple of plastic shopping bags. There was nothing suspicious in his luggage but, when he walked through the metal detector, there was an alarm. There were iPhone 5, 5S, 6 and 6 Plus models wrapped in clear plastic and taped to his chest, abdomen, thighs and calves.
The man hailed from Hong Kong and that had a record of past offences. The maximum penalty in Hong Kong for exporting items without properly declaring them is a £1.3m fine and seven years in prison.
It seems recently, customs officials had uncovered 18 cases of smugglers strapping items to their bodies in two main Hong Kong-China border crossings. As a result, they confiscated 282 iPhones, 4,088 SD cards, 840 USB thumb drives and hundreds of CPU chips.