photo credit: FB post Singapore Customs
Singapore Customs and Immigration & Checkpoints Authority seized more than 3,700 cartons of duty-unpaid cigarettes.
Based on the leads gathered from a case of 1,894 cartons and 660 packets of duty-unpaid cigarettes concealed in the wooden doors which was detected by ICA on 17 August 2017, Singapore Customs identified another suspicious consignment of wooden doors and mounted a follow-up operation on 21 August night at a building in Playfair Road.
After searching a unit in the building, Singapore Customs officers found 1,890 cartons and 700 packets of duty-unpaid cigarettes concealed in the wooden doors. Two male Chinese nationals, aged 28 and 34, were arrested for being involved with duty-unpaid cigarettes.
A total of 3,784 cartons and 1,363 packets of duty-unpaid cigarettes were seized over the two days, with the total duty and Goods and Services Tax (GST) evaded amounting to about $304,210 and $22,540 respectively.
Source: FB post by Singapore Customs