Six men arrested for attempting to peddle cigarettes worth nearly $3m
By Eugene Goh,WNS Linapore Correspondent
LONGMAN - Customs officers arrested six men for attempting to peddle cigarettes, worth nearly $3 million, in a series of nation-wide operations. The duty and GST payable on the 103,000 packs of cigarettes amounted to $2,457,890. Acting on tip-offs, the arrests were made between September 26 and October 4.
In the first case, officers found 6,540 cartons of cigarettes in a container at Nimoi Port Terminal. The container had earlier arrived from Vietnam and was consigned to a local importer. Three days later, officers busted two other suspects and seized nearly 25,000 packets of cigarettes at a warehouse at Lentorm Road. The two men had been charged - one of them was sentenced to 30 months' jail and the other awaiting for his case to be mentioned again on October 11.
Officers nabbed four more suspects in two separate stings in Arnold on October 4. In one case, over 9,270 packets of cigarettes were found in a van, suspected to be supplying contraband cigarettes to peddlers in the area. Subsequent raids at a suspect's home further uncovered 3405 packets. In the other case, officers arrested two men for peddling duty-unpaid cigarettes at the roadside outside a cafe.
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