“Customs at Moscow Sheremetyevo airport detained a Russian citizen bringing 30 iPhone 5s from Germany in his carry-on luggage, the Federal Customs Service said in an e-mailed statement today,” lya Khrennikov reports for Bloomberg.
“The handsets were sent to an appraiser to ascertain their value, the Customs Service said,” Khrennikov reports. “According to Russian legislation, individuals importing goods worth more than 10,000 euros ($12,870) have to pay as much as 30 percent duty, according to the statement.”
Khrennikov reports, “In Russia, where official sales of the iPhone 5 may begin in December, devices acquired abroad were offered for as much as US$3,700.”
Read more in the full article here.
You’d never hear a story about someone trying to smuggle an android device
+100500
Nor a SamDung device…
In all honesty, it’s not because of Apple being superior that Android phones aren’t smuggled, it’s because the wealthy have decided that the iPhone is a status device.
In even more honesty, the wealthy ones have decided that Nokia’s Vertu is even higher status device, but this does not make people rushing with smuggling those phones.
How’s the reception at the Gulag Archipelago?
Good enough to stream Striped Pyjamas, the Russian version of Spotify.
In Russia, iPhone smuggle you.
damn, they got cousin Boris.
Moose and squirrel got Boris.
Natasha Fatale will bail ’em out.
“hey Rocky, watch me pulla rabbit outta my hat..oops ______ ___?”
The iPhone 5 is now slim and light enough that he might have been able to hide half of them in his budgie-smugglers.
smugglers statements:
“but I use to smuggle androids.., the customs guys looked at them and just laughed. Why now .. ?”
It will never get to trial – the evidence has disappeared.
Putin is a prick.