Nantong police arrested a man on 24 July on suspicion of fraud in relation to the evasion of road tolls. The police are still putting the case together and, when it is brought to prosecution, it will be first-ever toll evasion-related fraud case.

The suspect Li, a haulier who used to buy potatoes from Shandong province and sell them in southern Jiangsu, worked out a plan with his accomplice (still at large) in March. They each bought a truck of the same model and drove their truckload in opposite directions on the Shandong-Shanghai route only to meet in Nantong. At the toll station in Rugao Nantong, they would exchange number plates and tickets so that over the months until Li’s arrest, he evaded more than Rmb3,000. On 24 July, they were caught at the northern side of the Sutong Bridge when the handover of the plates and tickets triggered an automatic alarm system.