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China's courts heard more than 230,000 economic cases in 1996, involving nearly 10 billion yuan (about HK$9.32 billion) in funds.
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The Economic Daily said the amount of fines imposed by the courts in these cases totalled about 1.6 billion yuan. The illegal economic activities included more than 50,000 cases of smuggling, 18,000 cases of swindling consumers and 58,000 cases of faking goods.
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