Former Flight Attendant Sentenced to 11-Year Imprisonment for Foreign Purchase

• Author: China Law Digest

On September 3, Beijing’s Second Intermediate Court heard a case concerning cosmetics smuggling by a former flight attendant. Li, the defendant, worked as a flight attendant; after leaving her job, she opened an online shop named ‘The Flight Attendant’s Little Shop’ on Taobao. From 2010 to 2011 August, Li, together with co-defendants Zhu and Shi, purchased cosmetic products overseas and brought them into China via the Nothing-to-Declare Channel, evading taxes of more than 1.13 million RMB. Thereafter, the products were sold to make profits in the online shop owned by Li and Shi. At first instance, the court convicted...