An employee of a duty-free company in Haikou was sentenced to prison for buying a thousand duty-free items and selling ten thousand taxable gift items privately.

An employee of a duty-free company in Haikou, Xu, for the purpose of making profit, "bought" 1627 duty-free items, and also colluded with others to take advantage of management loopholes and abuse of power, stealing tens of thousands of taxable gift items for private sale. Recently, the Second Intermediate People's Court of Hainan Province made a first-instance judgment on the case. Xu was found guilty of smuggling ordinary goods and embezzlement of duties, with multiple counts convicted and punished. The court decided to sentence him to 2 years and 2 months in prison, as well as a fine of 250,000 yuan.