Singapore Customs has seized more than 2,900 cartons of duty-unpaid cigarettes, from a farm in Sungei Tengah Road and a commercial building in Soon Lee Street, during an earlier operation on 2 June.
Officers from Singapore Customs were keeping a close watch on the farm in Sungei Tengah Road that morning when they spotted a van parked inside the farm, which was filled with brown boxes in the trunk, and saw a man exiting from a unit in the farm.
Singapore Customs conducted a follow-up raid in a commercial building in Soon Lee Street in the same morning. In a unit of the building, the officers found another 150 cartons and 25 packets of duty-unpaid cigarettes.
A 57-year-old Singaporean man was charged in the State Courts on 3 June 2017 for storing duty-unpaid cigarettes. Court proceedings are ongoing.
Singapore Customs stressed, buying, selling, conveying, delivering, storing, keeping, having in possession or dealing with duty-unpaid goods are offences under the Customs Act and the GST Act. Offenders can be fined up to 40 times the amount of duty and GST evaded, and/or jailed for up to six years.
Repeat offenders who are caught with more than two kilogrammes of tobacco products will also face mandatory imprisonment. Vehicles used in the commission of such offences are also liable to be forfeited.
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2,926 cartons of duty-unpaid cigarettes in Sungei Tengah Rd and Soon Lee Street
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