Chinese customs officers at the port of Liantang got more than they bargained for when an unusually busty woman was spotted among the arriving passengers. Noticing her nervous behavior, she was intercepted and frisked, which led to the discovery that she was trying to smuggle 350 Nintendo Switch game cartridges into mainland China in her bra. The customs officers noticed that the woman was behaving unusually and that her “appearance and attitude were not innocent”. A sharp-eyed customs officer also believed her breasts looked unusual, so they pulled her out of the line of arriving passengers for further inspection.
That inspection revealed that the woman was not as well-endowed as she had hoped the officials would believe. They found 350 Nintendo Switch game cartridges stuffed into her bra. The initial estimated value of the smuggled goods was 70,000 yuan ($9,660). Chinese customs officials highlighted Article 7 of the Ordinance on the Implementation of Customs Administrative Penalties of the People’s Republic of China. That regulation prohibits people entering China from evading customs control by “concealing, disguising, concealing declarations, false declarations or other means, transporting, carrying or sending goods whose entry or exit has been prohibited or restricted by the state.”
Bringing goods into or out of China without paying the appropriate taxes is, as in most countries, considered smuggling and illegal. Assuming that the Nintendo Switch game cards are not banned or restricted, the suspect could be subject to a fine of “no more than three times the amount of benefits payable but evaded”.
