(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-06-12 09:59

HANGZHOU  -- Two people have recently been jailed for smuggling more than 10,000 international brand watches in east China's Zhejiang Province, a local court said.

Zhu Jianfeng, a watch company owner in Yiwu city, was jailed 12 years for smuggling  more than 17,000 brand watches, including OMEGA, LONGINES,RADO, TISSOT, Titoni and TUDOR, between January 2004 to December 2006, a Jinhua Intermediate People's Court ruling said.

Qin Kaisheng, was jailed six years for smuggling 797 brand watches, including Titoni and LONGINES, between January 2007 to April 2007, it said.

Zhu evaded taxes worth 20.53 million yuan (2.97 million US dollars) and Qin evaded more than 14.09 million yuan (2.04 million US dollars), the ruling said.

Zhu was also fined 20 million yuan and Qin was fined 14 million yuan.