Artist fined for having contraband cigarettes
Published on Apr 12, 2012
A self-taught artist who developed an etching style using ground pencil lead and erasers while serving time behind bars has found himself on the wrong side of the law again.
Chang Inn Kong, 62, was fined a total of $40,000 on Wednesday for possessing duty-unpaid cigarettes.
He was caught with 2.76kg of contraband cigarettes near Redhill Market on March 13. Another 4.66kg of such cigarettes were seized from his Lengkok Bahru flat that evening.
Chang has spent more than half his life in and out of prison. He was sent to a juvenile home three times.
In 1999, he was jailed for loan-sharking and drug-dealing activities, and masterminding the robbery of computer peripherals worth $1 million.
Read the full story in Thursday's edition of The Straits Times.
