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On August 10, a Chinese couple employed at a courier business in Hong Kong as shipping and delivery executives had been reportedly arrested by Customs Ministry officials soon after they unsuccessful to make papers about Customs responsibilities. Officials found 150 packets of polished diamonds on them.
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A commotion has erupted in the diamond hubs in Surat and Mumbai just after Chinese authorities reportedly carried out raids subsequent the modern arrest of a community pair on the demand of smuggling diamonds.
A Gujarati diamond merchant was grilled by the Chinese authorities and unveiled on Tuesday night time, reported The Indian Specific. The Gems and Jewellery Export Marketing Council (GJEPC), Gujarat Zone, has now sought aid from the governing administration to help diamond merchants from India in Hong Kong.

On August 10, a Chinese few used at a courier firm in Hong Kong as supply executives have been reportedly arrested by Customs Ministry officers after they unsuccessful to make papers with regards to Customs obligations. Officials identified 150 packets of polished diamonds on them. The diamonds were being allegedly remaining smuggled to Shenzhen along with a small diary with names and facts of the get-togethers that had presented them the diamonds and people for whom the cherished stones ended up meant, the report extra.
About 120 Chinese executives have reportedly been picked up for questioning and taken to Shenzhen just after the questioning of the pair.
“We have appear to know that Chinese officials have picked up 120 persons in raids carried out at numerous spots in distinct cities so far.” Boasting a Gujarati trader experienced been questioned, he included, “We ask for the Government to ship a concept to the Indian Embassy and instruct them to support the Indian diamond traders there,” GJEPC Gujarat Zone Chairman Dinesh Navadia advised The Indian Categorical.
The publication further quoted a Surat diamond service provider with investing places of work in Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Guangzhou. He stated, “Through our resources, we have occur to know that the Customs division of China experienced begun a push in mid-August and were being trying to keep an eye on the motion of diamond parcels from Hong Kong to distinct cities in China. We have appear to know that on Wednesday they begun raiding diamond traders and jewellery production places of work in 8 cities in China like Shenzhen, Shanghai, Guangzhou etc. We are waiting around for a clearer photograph.”
Back again in January 2010, Chinese Customs officials had held 22 diamond retailers from Gujarat on related expenses, out of which, thirteen of them were brought back again after then primary minister Manmohan Singh and then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi intervened.
As China has emerged as a hub of production of diamond jewellery, smuggling from Hong Kong to mainland China has turn into a common observe for the evasion of Customs obligation of 4%.