Tourist sentenced to 6 months' imprisonment for bringing duty-not-paid cigarettes

A tourist was sentenced to prison for bringing nearly 50,000 duty-not-paid cigarettes into the city.

The 43-year-old female tourist arrived in Hong Kong via the airport yesterday.

Customs officers seized 48,400 duty-not-paid cigarettes in her personal baggage, with a potential duty of about 160,000 dollars.

The defendant was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and fined 1,000 dollars by the Kowloon City Magistrates' Court today.