Who knows if this is true or not but it's certainly plausible and certainly entertaining.
Hello, I'm Amy Jiang. On the surface, I could be a poster woman for the face of modern China. I am a mostly successful 20-something, savvy English-fluent woman with international business experience as a buyer and translator. But the truth is that I'm currently working for shady Russian businessmen posing as legitimate buyers in Shenzhen and Hong Kong. And while much of Shenzhen seems occupied with smuggling counterfeit handbags and shoes to the west, Sacha and Bogdan, as we will call them, are preoccupied with smuggling more serious stuff.
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Officially I work for a textile exporter that supplies a distributor in St. Petersburg with cut-rate Chinese lingerie, swimwear and sportswear. But even that side of the business gets complicated when Bogdan and his partner delay payments to the Chinese textile sellers in order to juggle the wobbly finances fueling their major unofficial business — shipping Shenzhen-manufactured counterfeit Nokia, Motorola and Samsung cell phone parts and accessories (cases, chargers, batteries, head sets) both in crates of Chinese-made clothing or simply the parts themselves in boxes marked with Cyrillic letters as “anything a customer wants to say it is,” according to a Chinese co-worker who handles the bulk of the several thousand phony phone parts shipped to Russia, Estonia, Lithuania, Kazakhstan and Georgia per month.
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