Read the full judgment text of DCCC 923/2019 on BabelCite. This District Court judgment was delivered on 24 January 2020.
1. On 10 September 2019, the defendant, Mr Schwendinger Glenn Harry Patrick, holder of both a Canadian and an Austrian passport, arrived at the Hong Kong International Airport. On his hand-carried luggage, the customs officers found 97 pieces of what is commonly known as “pink conch pearls”, a rare non-nacreous pearl produced by as sea snail commonly known as “Queen Conch” of the species Strombus gigas.