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CUSTOMS AND EXCISE DEPAR
INTELLECTUAL, PROPERTY INVESTIGATE
香港海關
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Customs and Excise
Department officers check
travellers' luggage (above)
and point out cases of illegal video compact discs (left) that were among contraband goods worth $237 million seized in raids during 1998.
The department also cracked 15 major trafficking cases, seizing 47.5 kilograms of heroin and 94.4 kilograms of cannabis, among other illegal substances. In all, 824 people were arrested for drug-related offences.