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Clifford Lo

An informant whose tip-off led Customs officers to seize $6.4 million worth of smuggled cigarettes could get a reward of up to $50,000.

 Customs investigators pounced after the information was passed on last week.

 The department's anti-cigarette-smuggling taskforce laid an ambush in the Marble Industrial Building in Kwai Fung Crescent, Kwai Chung, on Tuesday.

 Two men aged 34 and 43 were arrested when they left a fifth-floor unit in the building at 5pm.

 Inside, 4.9 million smuggled cigarettes in 15 different brands were seized.

 One of the two suspects is a mainlander who was overstaying in Hong Kong.

 The taskforce head, acting Assistant Superintendent Andrew Ki Wai-lung, said the cigarettes were suspected to have come from China by sea and were for local consumption.

 Mr Ki said the person who gave the tip-off could receive a reward of about $50,000 under the reward scheme funded by Hong Kong Tobacco Industry.



$50,000 for informant