Hong Kong’s Customs and Excise Department has moved to suppress speculation that the nine Singapore’s military vehicle which were detained in the city since November have been returned.
The department made the rebuttal after Apple Daily said in a report that the vehicles, which had been detained in the outdoor storage yard of a Tuen Mun storage facility for weeks, were missing since Monday.
The Excise department cleared that the vehicles were still being kept in Hong Kong.
“As the case is still being investigated, no more information is available. The military vehicles are still kept at a customs storage place in Tuen Mun. The vehicles have been stored indoors since December 6 2016,” a spokesperson said.
At a press conference, The Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said that the Hong Kong government is handling the incident in accordance with relevant laws.
The nine armoured vehicles were uncovered by Hong Kong customs on November 23 in containers without any required permits. The cargo was going to Singapore from the Taiwanese port of Kaohsiung.
The vehicles, which were not “specifically” described in the cargo manifest, had been used in a military exercise in Taiwan.
It was Hong Kong’s biggest seizure of “strategic commodities” in two decades.
Last week, Singapore’s defence minister Ng Eng Hen said the Lion City’s military had learned a lesson from the saga.
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