{"id":30835,"date":"2026-02-23T11:46:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T03:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=30835"},"modified":"2026-02-23T11:46:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T03:46:37","slug":"14550-cartons-of-duty-unpaid-cigarettes-hidden-in-air-coolers-seized-in-raids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=30835","title":{"rendered":"14,550 cartons of duty-unpaid cigarettes hidden in air coolers seized in raids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Follow-up investigations led to a second operation on Feb 11 at another industrial building on Tuas Bay Close, where officers discovered 7,244 more cartons of duty-unpaid cigarettes similarly hidden in three air cooler units.<\/p>\n<p>In total, the haul involved about S$1,578,512 in evaded duty and GST.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our investigations revealed that an unknown person had allegedly engaged the arrested man to retrieve the (duty-unpaid cigarettes) from the air coolers and pack them for local distribution,&#8221; said Customs.<\/p>\n<p>Court proceedings against the man are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Under the Customs Act and the GST Act, buying, selling, conveying, delivering, storing, keeping, possessing and dealing in duty-unpaid goods are serious offences.<\/p>\n<p>Offenders can be fined up to 40 times the amount of duty and GST evaded, jailed for up to six years, or both.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/tax-evasion-gst-cigarettes-air-coolers-15-million-customs-5946191\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow-up investigations led to a second operation on Feb 11 at another industrial building on Tuas Bay Close, where officers discovered 7,244 more cartons of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--2pE8TT2V--\/c_crop,h_759,w_1350,x_0,y_54\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/02\/23\/2_panel_composite.png?itok=Rm7WEYR8","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[364,16358,16360,16361,16359,3020,5612,2160],"class_list":["post-30835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-air","tag-cartons","tag-cigarettes","tag-coolers","tag-dutyunpaid","tag-hidden","tag-raids","tag-seized","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}