China. He glued 306 processors to his body. This is the biggest smuggling attempt of its kind

Chinese border guards thwarted the smuggling of electronics to mainland China from two special administrative regions of the PRC. This time it was the largest ever detected attempt to transport computer processors across the border.

It carried 306 processors strapped to its body

Chinese and English-language media reported that the man was detained as he passed through the “nothing to declare” crossing on the Macau border to mainland China. The services stopped him and searched him because he was moving in an unnatural way. It turned out that he had belts stuffed with computer processors, hidden under his clothes, fastened to his stomach and legs. In total, as many as 306 chips were counted, which means that it was the largest attempt to smuggle processors into China so far. As the Chinese do not say what processors they were, but from the photos it can be deduced that they are AMD Ryzen 7000 series. These are powerful processors for players, the prices of which start at around PLN 1.5 thousand. zloty.

Macau, although like Hong Kong belongs to China, is the so-called a special administrative region of the PRC, i.e. it operates under special rules and has considerable autonomy in internal affairs. It is illegal to transport electronics from Macau and Hong Kong to China without paying customs duty, because in the PRC we charge VAT on such goods in the amount of 13%. Meanwhile, in special administrative regions it is zero. Hence the whole group of people who try to get rich by smuggling computer components.

This is yet another in a series of smuggling attempts that have recently been thwarted. In March last year, a man was caught gluing 160 Intel processors to his body, and in December a woman tried to hide the 200 processors she was carrying. Last week, on the border between Macau and China, border officials detained a man who had glued 420 fast SSDs to his body, worth 33,000. dollars (over PLN 134,000).