On June 21, 2021, officials from the ICA’s Pasir Panjang Scanning Station thwarted an attempt to smuggle duty-free cigarettes hidden within a shipment of tyres labeled as “vehicle accessories.”
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ICA officials sent the cargo for supervised unstuffing at the importer’s facilities after seeing certain abnormalities in the scanned picture of a 40ft shipping container, and duty-unpaid cigarettes were discovered concealed in the tyres.
A total of 530 packages equivalent to 10,600 sticks of duty-unpaid cigarettes were confiscated and the matter was forwarded to Singapore Customs for further investigation.
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