Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/05/05
By: Liu Chien-pang and Frances Huang

Taipei, May 5 (CNA) Police on Friday cracked a firearms smuggling ring and confiscated various guns and ammunition worth an estimated NT$40 million (US$1.34 million) in the black market, the Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) said Saturday.

The 109 long or short guns and 12,378 rounds of ammunition had been transported from Hong Kong to Taiwan by sea in a shipping container, CIB officials said in a news conference.

Six suspects were arrested in the alleged crime, including a 24-year-old man surnamed Chen (陳), they said.

According to CIB Deputy Director Liao Tsung-shan (廖宗山), when customs officers conducted an inspection on shipping containers at the northern Taiwan port of Keelung on April 29, they suspected a container from Hong Kong carried contraband items.    [FULL  STORY]