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Customs Makes A Further Arrest Over Methamphetamine In Suitcase
Friday, 14 October 2022, 2:46 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
A 39-year Auckland man has been arrested on suspicion of involvement in smuggling methamphetamine into New Zealand, following Customs’ search of a Māngere address this morning. This morning’s arrest relates to the alleged importation of the Class ... More >>
Customs Makes A Further Arrest Over Methamphetamine In Suitcase
Friday, 14 October 2022, 2:27 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
A 39-year Auckland man has been arrested on suspicion of involvement in smuggling methamphetamine into New Zealand, following Customs’ search of a Māngere address this morning. This morning’s arrest relates to the alleged importation of the Class ... More >>
Arrest Follows International Tip-offs To Customs Over Child Exploitation Material
Friday, 7 October 2022, 3:38 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
Customs investigations have led to the arrest of a 39-year-old man in Auckland on Friday (7 October 2022) for allegedly uploading and distributing objectionable material online, which depicts the sexual exploitation of children. Customs’ Child Exploitation ... More >>
Auckland Man Lands Community Detention For Fashion Imports
Wednesday, 27 July 2022, 3:32 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
Auckland man Dongguan Kang was today sentenced in Auckland District Court to 3 months electronically monitored community detention for defrauding Customs revenue. He had been undervaluing clothing and shoes which he imported for resale through his fashion ... More >>
Mutual Recognition Arrangement To Ease Trade With The United Kingdom
Monday, 4 July 2022, 1:46 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
A new Customs arrangement between New Zealand and the United Kingdom (UK) will make it easier for our exporters to access one of New Zealand’s largest export markets, Christine Stevenson, Customs Comptroller and Chief Executive said today. A Mutual ... More >>
Jail Term For $4.9 Million Tobacco Fraudster
Friday, 1 July 2022, 1:43 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
A man was sentenced in the Auckland District Court today on charges of defrauding the revenue of Customs and money laundering after being linked to two shipments containing a total of 4.2 million cigarettes. 38-year-old man Hoong Ping Lee was sentenced to ... More >>
Customs arrests man for smuggling 62 kilograms of meth'
Monday, 27 June 2022, 12:25 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
A 31-year-old man has appeared in the Auckland District Court this morning, charged with importing a Class A drug after Customs carried out a search warrant in Auckland on Thursday night (23 June 2022). More >>
Arrest At Auckland International Airport For Smuggling Methamphetamine
Friday, 10 June 2022, 5:25 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
Attributed to Cam Moore, Customs Manager Investigations. Customs have arrested a man at Auckland International Airport today for attempting to smuggle two kilograms of methamphetamine into the country from a flight departing Santiago. The methamphetamine, ... More >>
Passenger Jailed For Carrying Child Sexual Abuse Material
Friday, 6 May 2022, 5:01 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
A 42-year-old man was today sentenced in the Auckland District Court to two years and five months’ imprisonment for knowingly importing objectionable publications depicting the sexual abuse of children. He was also registered on the Child Sex Offender ... More >>
New Zealand Traveller Declaration Open For All Travellers
Tuesday, 29 March 2022, 3:51 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
From 11:59pm 31 March 2022, everyone travelling to New Zealand by air is required to complete and submit a New Zealand Traveller Declaration. The New Zealand Traveller Declaration system requires travellers to upload their recent travel history and ... More >>
Record Breaking Cocaine Seizure In Shipment
Wednesday, 16 March 2022, 11:17 am | New Zealand Customs Service
New Zealand Customs has seized more than 700 kilograms of cocaine that was being smuggled in a shipping container. This breaks its record border seizure of 613 kilograms of methamphetamine that was intercepted in Auckland two weeks earlier. Using intelligence ... More >>
New Zealand And The Netherlands Welcome New Information Sharing Agreement
Friday, 11 March 2022, 9:07 am | New Zealand Customs Service
New Zealand and the Netherlands welcome the Agreement between New Zealand and the Kingdom of the Netherlands on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Customs Matters Agreement (CMAA) that was signed on Thursday March 10 in Wellington. The CMAA will ... More >>
New Zealand Traveller Declaration
Friday, 4 February 2022, 3:23 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
From next week, Customs will be piloting a new online traveller declaration system, which will collect and assess travellers’ COVID-19 health-related information. The New Zealand Traveller Declaration system requires travellers to upload this information ... More >>
Overseas Partnerships Acknowledged On International Customs Day
Wednesday, 26 January 2022, 2:27 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
This International Customs Day (January 26), the New Zealand Customs Service acknowledges the success of its overseas relationships, which is preventing significant quantities of illicit drugs from reaching our shores. To the end of December 2021, Customs has ... More >>
Auckland Woman Sentenced For Tobacco Smuggling
Thursday, 20 January 2022, 12:29 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
Auckland woman Hua Yi Zhu was sentenced at the Auckland District Court today to three years for defrauding Customs of tobacco revenue. Zhu, 50, was sentenced for her role in smuggling 19,419,400 cigarettes and revenue fraud of more than $18.7m ... More >>
Customs Warns Of Scam Text Messages In Circulation
Monday, 15 November 2021, 3:55 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
Customs is warning New Zealanders of a text message scam that is currently circulating, urging them not to fall prey. There are variations of text messages asking receivers to pay Customs charges for parcels coming into New Zealand, with a link included. ... More >>
Hamilton Man Jailed For Online Sexual Child Exploitation
Wednesday, 10 November 2021, 2:55 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
A 58-year-old man was today sentenced in the Hamilton District Court to seven years and three months’ imprisonment for sharing child sexual exploitation material online. He was also registered on the Child Sex Offender Register. The man, a Company Director ... More >>
Arrangements In Place For Fishing Vessel Viking Bay To Dock In Wellington
Monday, 12 July 2021, 8:32 am | New Zealand Customs Service
Customs has today confirmed that the required plans are in place for the return of the fishing vessel Viking Bay to New Zealand in a safe and coordinated way. The vessel, which is carrying 20 people on board, including two crew members that tested ... More >>
Customs Drives Work On COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery For APEC Economies
Tuesday, 8 June 2021, 1:32 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
The New Zealand Customs Service (Customs) has led work to deliver a set of Best Practice Guidelines (the Guidelines) to support the roll out of COVID-19 vaccines in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) region. At the APEC Ministers Responsible ... More >>
Romanian Nationals Jailed For Card Skimming
Wednesday, 7 October 2020, 3:24 pm | New Zealand Customs Service
Two Romanian nationals were sentenced in Auckland’s District Court today for importing and possessing card skimming equipment. The equipment was used to obtain credit card details of more than 122 New Zealanders, and to steal approximately $75,380 from ... More >>
