A user wants to smuggle hardware worth nearly 50,000 euros past customs. However, it goes wrong. The airport police catch him and report the find.
The police at the airport are regularly confronted with strange ideas. For example, someone once tried to smuggle a knife in a laptop onto the plane.
Now, a man has come up with the idea of smuggling processors in large quantities past customs to China. However, he has not gotten far, as he behaved conspicuously.
Man caught due to strange behavior – police find processors
As colleagues from 3djuegos.com report, a man tried to evade customs control a few days ago. He used the green gate at the airport. In Germany, it says “Customs, Nothing to declare,” meaning you have nothing to declare.
However, his loose clothing and strange gait caught the attention of the security officers, who asked him to undergo a routine check. During the check, the security officers found 239 processors. All the CPUs were of the same model, namely the Intel Core i5-13400F. The popular mid-range CPU is currently available in stores for around 200 euros.
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Not the first case of smuggling to China
It happens at regular intervals that people are caught trying to smuggle hardware past customs.
Just recently, someone was caught trying to transport 84 SSDs in an electric scooter to China. Again, the local authority was quite surprised by the ingenuity some people have.
With rising chip prices, it’s not surprising that many try their luck with hardware. There are heavy penalties for smuggling. For instance, PCGamer.com explains that such individuals face a “maximum penalty of 2 million dollars and a prison sentence of seven years,” as stated by the customs authority in Hong Kong.
During the boom of Bitcoin and co., some individuals even smuggled expensive graphics cards. Here, the Chinese authorities caught a gang with loot worth over 200,000 euros. This also shows what a great demand there was for such graphics cards back then:
