Not long ago, 21-year-old Chinese student Jenny and his mother, who were studying at the University of Edinburgh's School of Arts, travelled to Spain.
Barcelona's beautiful natural scenery, museums, many places of interest, have left them with good memories.
What surprised Jenny most was that the trip to Barcelona was "free".
It turned out that Jenny's mother met a "noble" man, a Chinese man who called himself a businessman on the Internet. The man told Jenny's mother that because Barcelona was busy with business, he could pay for all the travel to Barcelona if he could help bring a luggage back to the UK.
At first, Jenny is also half-trusting, there is even such a good thing in the world. But the thought of free travel, Jenny's mother began to persuade, children, just to help bring a suitcase, we can travel for free!
So, half-pushed, Jenny gave the favor to the next.
Unexpectedly, when the mother and daughter returned by plane after the journey, they were stopped on the spot by customs officers at Glass Airport and asked to open their bags for inspection.
And when we found the last suitcase, customs officers actually found 10 suspicious bags inside, wrapped tightly by towels outside, opened a look, the airport staff were surprised, inside is wrapped in 10 bags of marijuana (Cannabis), These drug are packed in vacuum bags of different colors, each bag 1 kg, full 10 kg.
Hearing the staff say, 10 kilograms of drug, Jenny mother and daughter were scared silly.
The 10-kilogram marijuana is estimated to be worth one hundred thousand pounds, equivalent to eight hundred and sixty thousand yuan. The 21-year-old student was jailed for transporting one hundred thousand pounds of marijuana from Barcelona.
Last Thursday, December 13, the court formally heard the case, and the police filed two charges against Jenny, a Chinese student.
1 wilfully carrying prohibited marijuana 2 to provide contraband by fraudulent means
During the trial, Jenny denied all the prosecution charges against her. She said the suitcase is not her own, nor does she know the password of the suitcase, nor does it know in advance that there will be a marijuana in it.
My mother seldom travels, this is my college last semester, I just want to help my mother a favor, not think too much.
Despite Jenny's insistence that the matter had nothing to do with her, she had no prior knowledge of the man. But the jury was unanimous in finding her guilty, and waiting for her would be an inevitable prison sentence.
Hearing of such a trial, Jenny immediately wept and regretted his hasty decision.
Jenny, a former member of a well-known visual arts group, has shown a high level of artistic talent in schools, often attending art exhibitions held by the school.
This is a promising art student, but because of "help", the future is ruined.
She never thought that a trip after the semester would make her spend Christmas in prison.
According to the marijuana carried by law, Jenny in the UK, drug of Class B is punishable by up to 5 years' imprisonment and a fine (no upper limit)!
Although this happened in the United Kingdom, but also to read in Australia, life sounded a warning bell.
Do not greedy small cheap, eat a big loss!
At the airport, don't help any strangers with their luggage. China's foreign ministry website has also warned students in Australia not to collect packages on behalf of others.
Criminals often deceive students into picking up packages with drug on their behalf. Two students in New South Wales have been sentenced to a $ eight hundred and fifty thousand fine or 25 years in prison as a result of the prosecute.
Australia has severe penalties for drug-related offences, including manufacturing, possession, trafficking, and smoking of drug, in addition to the Customs Act, as well as specific regulations in the states.
Four young people from China's TW have become dangerous because of their desire to "free seven-day tour of Australia", which turns out to be a danger to drug dealer.
Previously, the TW criminal group used the mentality of young people to travel abroad and played the banner of free travel.
And announced that the total of 4 free Australia 7-day tour, interested can participate in the lottery, and requested to stay in contact.
As a result, four young people were unfortunately recruited. When four young people were excited to "receive the prize," defendant did not have to pay a penny, but he asked everyone to bring a suitcase to Australia in person.
The four young men agreed without much thought. At the airport customs, the four were all stopped by the staff and asked to open the box for inspection.
As a result, in the luggage of one of the college students, the police found a large number of drug-methamphetamine (methamphetamine).
The college girl looked confused and claimed that the suitcase was carried by others.
At the same time, police also found in the suitcase of the other three young men a large amount of shampoo and shower lotion, which was filled with drug.
Several young people with no priors were intimidated on the spot, saying they were just going to travel to Australia for free.
But I don't know what's in the box.
When they knew they had been taken for granted, everyone felt remorseful. The four young men were taken away by the police on the spot, waiting for them to be severely punished by law.
Similar cases abound.
In June 2017, three young people in Hong Kong greedy for "labor fees" to help others carry things, when they entered the customs seized a large number of drug.
In 2017, customs checked a package from Nigeria and found that it contained 14.89 kilograms of drug marijuana,.
The package is owned by a Chinese girl, Li, who claims the package was delivered for a person.
At first, she met the drug dealer on the Internet for the sole purpose of learning English together.
After spending some time together, the two men had confidence in the drug dealer.
This time, too, under the unguarded trust, helped the drug dealer collect the package.
When she found out that the packages were drug, it was too late to repent.
In 2015, five Chinese students arrived in Australia on a visa to smuggle a large number of methamphetamine! 5 from China to prison for four to nine years without bail, just because they were found involved in drug trafficking at the time of entry.
He was sent back to China after serving his sentence.
In 2013, the Australian Customs Service solved a case. Two Sydney teenagers were asked to bring parcels for hundreds of Australian dollars.
One of these packages contains 4 kilograms of ephedrine, making a $ two hundred and fifty thousand methamphetamine.
epilogue
Christmas is approaching, and the peak season of travel, many criminals, criminal syndicates are also optimistic about this rare opportunity, they will use all kinds of means, various tricks, to deceive the victims of drug transport.
These criminals know this is a felony, and in some countries a few grams is enough to make you never go home, Singapore, Malaysia, smuggling 15 grams of drug, or the death penalty, Thailand, Iran, Gulf States, Smuggling of 30 grams of drug could be punishable by death.
So instead of taking risks on their own, they find young people who don't have much social experience and act as scapegoats, and once things come to light, they can walk away and continue to get away with it.
"are you going home? Ask for help and bring something! " "I can't carry my luggage anymore. Would you like to put it in for me?" "I'm sorry, I forgot to check in (or my luggage is overweight). Could you bring me something to get on the plane (or out of customs)? I can give you some thanks. "
When hearing this sentence in the future, it is best not to "help others" easily, to know that once found contraband (drug, etc.), light will leave a bad record in the customs, serious will constitute a crime!
People with little experience abroad, and seniors, are easy to recruit.
Warn the flanks! Don't be the next victim!