130 tonnes of chicken feet worth $300,000 stolen from Tin Shui Wai warehouse

A mainland Chinese woman holding a two-way permit reported to police on Tuesday that five containers storing 130 tonnes of chicken feet worth about HK$300,000 had been stolen from a warehouse in Tin Shui Wai.

The woman filed a report around 3pm, stating the containers were taken from a storage facility on Lau Fau Shan Road. Each container held 26 tonnes of chicken feet.

According to sources, the woman and her business partner ordered 14 containers of chicken feet from Brazil for US$800,000 in April last year. Due to a avian influenza outbreak in Brazil, the containers were unable to be shipped to Hong Kong and were stored at the Yantian port. Three months later, a container manager arranged for them to be moved to the Lau Fau Shan warehouse. The woman had been selling the chicken feet in batches and discovered on Tuesday that the remaining five containers had been removed.

Police have classified the case as theft. No arrests have been made.