Demand and price increases in the hardware market continue to bring along illegal procurement methods. In this context, another interesting case of smuggling took place at the Chinese Customs. The Chinese Customs office confiscated a large number of SSDs hidden in an electric scooter.Dozens of SSDs hidden in electric scooters caught in China
At the “Qingmao” checkpoint, Chinese officials reportedly witnessed an unprecedented situation in the X-Ray image of an electric scooter. Surprisingly, it turned out that a smuggler had hidden a large number of Kingston SSDs in the steering rod of a Yadea KS electric scooter.
According to the shared images, this person tried to take advantage of the device’s thin and rectangular design by hiding NVMe SSDs in the empty space on the front of the scooter. Officials say 84 SSD drives are hidden in the electric scooter. The value of the smuggled goods or how much fine this person will be fined has not yet been disclosed.Chip smuggling on the rise in China
Over the past few years, we’ve seen smuggling incidents start to rise due to increases in hardware prices. As a matter of fact, Chinese customs recently confiscated a $3 million worth of XFX Radeon RX graphics card. In March 2022, a person was caught hiding more than 250 Intel processors in his body.
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