SINGAPORE: Officers from the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) who staked out a warehouse in Bishan after receiving a tip-off found a Malaysian man in a warehouse that contained thousands of vaporisers and related components.
Checks of the man’s phone revealed a second warehouse in Ubi, which contained large quantities of vapes and components like pods and cartridges.
Chong Jun Keong, 21, was sentenced on Tuesday (Jan 6) to 41 weeks’ jail, or more than nine months’ jail. He pleaded guilty to two counts of possessing vapes or related components for sale, with another two charges taken into consideration.
THE CASE
The court heard that Chong worked as a sales assistant at a handphone shop called Lanavape in Bukit Indah, Johor Bahru in Malaysia. He earned a monthly salary of RM6,000 (S$1,898) at the store, which sold vapes and vape components on top of handphone accessories.
In July 2024, Chong got to know a customer known as John. In April 2025, John asked Chong if he wanted to work as a vape packer in Singapore for S$100 a day.
Needing more money due to the cost of living in Malaysia, Chong agreed.
Around May 8, 2025, Chong began working for John twice a week at a warehouse in Jalan Pemimpin in Singapore.
He was given keys for the warehouse as well as a second warehouse in Ubi, which opened in June 2025.
Chong worked at the first warehouse on Thursdays and Fridays, packing about 80 to 90 parcels a day. He had access to a phone in the warehouse and used an application on it to pack parcels according to instructions given by John via the app.
