Hundreds of thousands of face masks recently seized by Czech police in an anti-trafficking operation were imported into the country by an overseas Chinese businessman with close links to Beijing, according to an investigative report by local media.
On March 16, police raided a warehouse of a private company in the northwestern Czech town of Lovosice, where they seized 680,000 masks and 28,000 ventilators. About 100,000 face masks were labeled as Chinese Red Cross aid to Italy.
