Across China: Liaoning

Seafood smugglers held

Shenyang Customs recently busted a gang involved in the smuggling of sea cucumbers.

According to officials, the group had smuggled 113 tons of sea cucumbers and 58 tons of scallop, valued at approximately 150 million yuan ($22 million), through a falsified trade mode since April 2006. Customs caught ten suspects, four of whom were formally arrested.