Incheon Main Customs Office detects 230 tons of Chinese seaweed smuggled

A gang that smuggled 230 tons of Chinese sorghum by disguising it as urea water was caught by customs. The Incheon Main Customs Office of the Korea Customs Service announced on the 21st that 13 people, including a 40-year-old domestic distributor, were indicted without detention on charges of violating the Customs Act and sent to the prosecution. They are accused of smuggling 230 tons of Chinese sorghum, worth 1.3 billion won, into Korea on a total of 19 occasions from November 2023 to March of this year. Black beans, sorghum, are recognized as a “superfood” with excellent effects in preventing cancer, aging, and hair loss, and are popular in Korea. It is a high-tariff item with a tariff of up to 486%, and it was revealed that the smuggling gang planned their crime with the idea that they could make a lot of money by importing sorghum without paying tariffs and selling it as domestically produced. Incheon Customs reported that the smuggling gang saw the shortage of urea water ...