SINGAPORE – Three men who admitted being part of a syndicate that stored nearly 58,000 vape products in two “warehouses” were each sentenced to jail on Oct 1.
Ng Tai Lun, 27, and Adrian Chia Hong Qing, 33, had acted as “local distributors” and were in the middle rung of the three-tiered syndicate.
Chia, who earned around $100,000 when he was a syndicate member, was sentenced to a year and five months’ jail, and a fine of $100,000.
He will have to spend an additional four months behind bars if he fails to pay the fine.
He had earlier pleaded guilty to one count each of being a member of the syndicate and engaging in a conspiracy to possess more than 12,000 vaporisers at one of the “warehouses” – a rented terraced house in Lentor.
Ng had earned about $40,000 while he was part of the syndicate, and he was also sentenced to a year and five months’ jail on Oct 1.
He was fined $97,600 and will be spending another four months, three weeks and two days behind bars should he fail to pay it.
He had pleaded guilty to one count each of being a member of the syndicate and engaging in a conspiracy to possess more than 12,000 vaporisers at the Lentor “warehouse”.
Ng had also admitted to two other unrelated offences – one count each of drink driving and causing a van to remain at rest on a road, endangering other motorists.
For drink driving alone, he was fined $7,000, which was part of the total amount.
He was also disqualified from holding or obtaining all classes of driving licences for three years and four months.
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