Luckily silly faggot smokers got ICA to save them from themsleves
ICA foils contraband cigarette smuggling, 3 arrested
By Hetty Musfirah Abdul Khamid, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 16 December 2008 2021 hrs
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SINGAPORE: Singapore's Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) has busted three persons for attempting to smuggle duty-unpaid cigarettes into the country.
Officers stopped a Malaysian-registered truck at about 2am on Tuesday at the Tuas Second Link.
Checks uncovered some 3,700 cartons, comprising more than 700,000 sticks of cigarettes, which were hidden under more than 600 boxes of frozen fish.
The total customs duty and GST payable on the cigarettes amounted to S$305,000 and S$25,600 respectively.
The driver, a 33-year-old man, and two others aged 27 and 29, claimed to have been promised payment by a local syndicate should the consignment be delivered successfully.
If found guilty, first-time offenders can be fined up to a maximum of 20 times the amount of duty evaded.
For second or subsequent convictions, offenders could be jailed up to two years and fined.
- CNA/yt
ICA foils contraband cigarette smuggling, 3 arrested
By Hetty Musfirah Abdul Khamid, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 16 December 2008 2021 hrs
Photos 2 of 2
SINGAPORE: Singapore's Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) has busted three persons for attempting to smuggle duty-unpaid cigarettes into the country.
Officers stopped a Malaysian-registered truck at about 2am on Tuesday at the Tuas Second Link.
Checks uncovered some 3,700 cartons, comprising more than 700,000 sticks of cigarettes, which were hidden under more than 600 boxes of frozen fish.
The total customs duty and GST payable on the cigarettes amounted to S$305,000 and S$25,600 respectively.
The driver, a 33-year-old man, and two others aged 27 and 29, claimed to have been promised payment by a local syndicate should the consignment be delivered successfully.
If found guilty, first-time offenders can be fined up to a maximum of 20 times the amount of duty evaded.
For second or subsequent convictions, offenders could be jailed up to two years and fined.
- CNA/yt
