A chief officer on board a cargo vessel, who is of Myanmar nationality has been convicted to 6 months in a Chinese prison on the suspicion of smuggling goods into the country.
The seafarer was held at a jail in Tai Zhou City in Zhejiang province until his court appeal to reverse verdict was rejected by the court, said the Myanmar Embassy in Beijing.
41 containers were found aboard the ship that hadn’t been relayed to the Customs office and Infectious Disease Control and Prevention Department...