With just a junior high school education, Zhuang built one of China’s largest alcohol smuggling rings, evading $20 million in taxes and exposing a vast underground network exploiting e-commerce and Hong Kong trade routes. Read More
Smuggling
China’s sweeping new tariffs on American goods are already having unintended consequences—driving up smuggling activity as premium wine labels like California’s Opus One become increasingly lucrative targets for illicit trade. Read More
Investigators seized 705 bottles of wine and estimated tax evasion at more than 16 million yuan (US$2.2 million) including well-known names Louis Jadot and Domaine Faiveley. Read More
Authorities in Zhuhai, Guangdong have uncovered a massive wine and spirits smuggling operation, with over 1 million bottles seized. Read More
The Chinese government has recently unveiled a major wine smuggling case worth RMB 310 million (US$42.5 million), marking one of the most significant busts in recent years. Read More
How a RMB 200 1995 vintage Moutai helped customs officials crack a multi-million smuggling case in Nanjing, China. Read More
In a striking indication of an emerging trend, wine has become the latest target for drug traffickers, as evidenced by two separate cases of liquid cocaine smuggling on the same day in Hong Kong. Read More
Chinese Canadian winery owner who spent five years in a Chinese prison on charges of ice wine smuggling has defiantly maintained his innocence and recalled being "treated like corpses on a battlefield," in his first interview after release. Read More
The value of the wines involved would make it the largest wine smuggling case uncovered in recent years in China, and the amount of taxes evaded according to the report alone amounted to RMB 127 million (US$17.5 million). Read More
Xige Estate's strong-worded denial of a Meininger report and a multi-million smuggled drinks bust are making headlines inside China. Read More