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By Clyde Hughes
March 15 (UPI) -
- Border agents at the Port of Cincinnati discov- ered a package filled with $67,830 worth of gold in a shipment heading for Hong Kong with a declared value of $125, officials said
Wednesday.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said officers selected a package for an X- ray examination on March 9. The package originat- ed from San Francisco and was addressed to Kowloon, Hong Kong in China. It
was
declared to con- tain clothing val- ued at $125.
"After noting den- sity anomalies during the X-ray screening, officers opened the ship- ment and found four gold bars and a box of loose gold concealed within articles of
cloth-
ing," the
agency said in a statement.
"The [Laboratories and Scientific Services] con- firmed the gold was approximate- ly 98% pure, lead- ing import spe- cialists from the
Center for Excellence and Expertise to assess the value of the shipment at $67,830."
The agency said filing misleading export information can lead to civil or criminal penalties and prosecution.
"CBP aspires to be the most inno- vative and trusted law enforcement agency in the world," LaFonda D. Sutton-Burke, director of
field opera-
tions for the Chicago Field Office, said in a statement.
"As the volume and demand for U.S. exports increase, our offi- cers and special- ists safeguard our economy by maintaining a strong and unified presence at our
borders and leverage their experience and technology to detect shipments contrary to law."
In 2018, a janitor at the Incheon International Airport in Seoul, South
Korea found $325 million worth of gold bars in a garbage bin. The bars were wrapped in news- paper.
Authorities in Switzerland said in 2020 someone left
behind $190,000 worth of gold bars on a train. Officials said the bars appeared to be left after a Swiss Federal Railways train that arrived in the city from St. Gallen to Lucerne.
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Border Patrol Finds $67,830 Of Gold In Package Valued At $125