Image credit score – Hong Kong Customs & Excise

People smuggle all kinds of issues nowadays for numerous causes. Maybe import taxes are too excessive, or possibly it’s unlawful to promote it formally, however regardless of the case, we’ve seen some fairly inventive methods smugglers have gone about attempting to cover their stash from being found by the authorities.

Over in Hong Kong, one smuggler tried (and failed) to hide the truth that he was smuggling out CPUs and the way he did that was by strapping them to his physique, as you may see within the picture above. However, the picture solely exhibits a fraction of the variety of CPUs he tried to smuggle, which apparently numbered at 256.

According to the authorities, the CPUs he tried to smuggle have been Intel i7-10700 and i9-10900Ks. It appears that chip smuggling is a factor between Mainland China and Hong Kong. This is partly as a result of present chip scarcity through which everybody needs chips however not everybody should purchase them, so smuggling in models will enable them to be resold at marked up costs and fetch a tidy revenue.

It appears that issues are getting fairly unhealthy to the purpose the place a report from the South China Morning Post has revealed {that a} man was robbed and assaulted of chips price about $644,000.

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