Chinese custom officials have arrested a woman trying to smuggle 102 iPhone units from Hong Kong to China by strapping them onto her body.
According to a report by Chinese media XMNN, custom officers from China snatched the woman at a suspicious sight of her wearing more clothes than usual in the sweltering summer heat at the airport.
The excess clothes made the woman's chest to look inflated and out of proportion as compared with the rest of her body. After cornering her, officers found that she had packed 102 plastic-sealed iPhones and 15 luxury watches in layers wrapped around her four times.
The total haul weighed nearly 20kg, reports Apple Insider. The cost of the 102 iPhones is said to be over $100,000 (roughly N36 million in the parallel exchange market) in the US market.
After sorting the assortment of products on the woman, it was discovered that majority of the devices belonged to the iPhone 6 family. It is however unclear if the devices were genuine or fake.
The identity of the woman is also not yet known and there question on whether she is willingly smuggling the devices or was a part of a larger racket.
Meanwhile, local Chinese publications have already dubbed her as the 'female Iron Man'.
iPhone sells like hot cakes worldwide and thus, is equatable to a huge sum of money when sold in black markets. The motivation for smuggling iPhone models from Hong Kong to China is the price difference. China levies taxes and duties over and above the Hong Kong price, making the smuggling quite lucrative for both the buyer and seller.
