A Taiwanese tea shop smuggled 107 tons of Chinese tea mixed with Taiwanese tea from Vietnam's "washing origin" for sale in Taiwan.

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[Reporter Cai Qinghua/Kaohsiung] Prosecutors Liang Yongjun and Li Kanying of the Qiaotou District Prosecutor's Office commanded the Bureau of Investigation, the Agriculture and Food Administration and other units to crack down on a businessman named Xie, who was listed as one of Taiwan's top 100 tea companies in Nantou, and smuggled 107 tons of 107 tons from the "washing place" in Vietnam. Chinese tea mixed with Taiwanese tea is sold in Taiwan, and the main suspect pays 600,000 yuan on bail.

On September 29 and October 5 this year, the investigators conducted searches in Gangshan District, Kaohsiung City, Mingjian Township, Nantou County, etc., and brought back the defendant Xie and others, and seized a total of 5,995 boxes of Chinese tea suspected to be illegally imported. 107 metric tons.

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After investigation, the defendants, Xie brothers, belonged to the Nantou tea-making family, and together with another Huang Xian, were shareholders of China Huaqing Company; from December 2016, Huaqing Company in China was responsible for the production and acquisition of Jinxuan, Oolong, Tie Guanyin and other tea.

Ship the Chinese tea raw materials to Vietnam, hire Vietnamese workers to process them and mark Vietnam as the origin, change the origin of the tea raw materials by washing the origin, and then purchase the raw materials from Huaqing Company in the name of import and apply for customs declaration to enter Taiwan. After packaging, it is sold under the name of "Taiwan Top 100 Tea Shop" homemade Taiwanese tea.

The defendant was charged with the crime of obstructing agriculture, industry and commerce, the crime of fraud, the smuggling regulations, and the import of smuggled controlled items under the smuggling control item.

In October last year, the Agriculture and Food Administration visited a tea shop for testing, and it was identified as "overseas tea" by the tea improvement farm, and was listed as one of the targets of the High Inspection Administration to "strengthen the crackdown on mixing overseas tea with Taiwanese tea".

Prosecutors intercept smuggled Chinese tea in transit.

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