Cigarette hauls this year
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2 Mar: 8,908 cartons of cigarettes were seized from the engine room and cargo compartment of a vessel.
The boatman, who was paid $200 to help smuggle the goods, was hit with an $11.7 million fine.
The smuggler was fined more than $12 million.
Both penalties are the highest recorded for individuals involved in cigarette smuggling this year.
22 Mar: 1,179 cartons of cigarettes and tobacco products were seized from a vessel. Two Indonesian seamen, aged 29 and 34, were arrested.
2 May: 110 packets of cigarettes, in brown A3-sized envelopes, were seized from a Singaporean motorcyclist, 44.
His wife, 44, who was riding pillion, had strapped another 10 packets of cigarettes to her waist.
13 Sept: 4,500 cartons of cigarettes were seizes at the Woodlands Checkpoint. Two Malaysian men - a 43-year-old driver and his 27-year-old attendant - were arrested. -
i hope they dun ban us from buying ciggy from overseas
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wat happens to all the confiscated siggys?
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destroyed..
btw, there are fake cigarettes in the smuggled stuff.. no idea what kind of "tobacco" is used.. -
Ho Ho Ho! No more smoking for you this Christmas... Ho Ho Ho!
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If the Government weren't always increasing the tax on cigarettes, we won't have a smuggling problem. The demand for tobacco is undiminished. The question is only how the supply is divided between legal and smuggled cigarettes.
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Don't let nus-superstar hear this. Oh he's in taiwan.
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Nus superstar must be darn sad
