SHANGHAI: China Customs revealed 2,453 smuggling cases last year, which worth 15 billion yuan (US2.4 billion dollars).
Cases included 91 in the Shanghai free trade zone with 4 million yuan and more than 115 kilogram drugs seized in 28 smuggling cases including one conspiracy to bring 70 kilograms of drugs from South America into China through the Yangshan Deep-Water Port in Shanghai last September.
The number of offences was up 8.5 percent on 2013, while the sum involved was almost 43 percent higher. This was the largest ever drug trafficking crime busted by Shanghai Customs.
