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Smuggled iPads are seized on way from Hong Kong to China
Apr 22, 2010, 4:27 GMT
Hong Kong - Twenty-eight new Apple iPads have been seized from a lorry that was allegedly trying to smuggle them from Hong Kong to China, customs officials said Thursday.
The iPads - which have not yet been officially launched in Hong Kong or China - were among a haul of undeclared electronic goods on the lorry worth more than 200,000 US dollars.
A customs department spokesman in Hong Kong said the truck was stopped at a border checkpoint on its way to mainland China earlier this week. The 43-year-old driver was arrested and released on bail.
Around 1,000 iPads were snapped up as costly parallel imports in Hong Kong in early April soon after when the sought-after device was launched in the US.
Buyers paid around 775 US dollars for a basic model, 50 per cent more than in the US. Shops said around half of their customers were from mainland China where the devices sell for even higher prices.
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