{"id":46964,"date":"2026-04-24T07:46:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=46964"},"modified":"2026-04-24T07:46:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:46:42","slug":"ica-officers-find-over-30-cartons-of-contraband-cigarettes-hidden-within-metal-frames-and-plywood-singapore-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=46964","title":{"rendered":"ICA officers find over 30 cartons of contraband cigarettes hidden within metal frames and plywood, Singapore News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Singapore Customs is investigating a parcel containing contraband cigarettes that were flown into Singapore through airmail.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a Facebook reel shared on Thursday (April 23), the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) said that its officers detected anomalies in a scanned image of a postal article at Airmail Transit Centre in the Changi Airfreight Centre.<\/p>\n<p>After physically examining the parcel, they discovered more than 30 cartons and over 300 packets of duly-unpaid cigarettes concealed within metal frames and plywood.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The exhibits were handed over to Singapore Customs for further investigation,&#8221; said ICA.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"476\" width=\"380\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=476&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Freel%2F2186417638774432%2F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=380&amp;t=0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\">\u00a0<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Under the Customs Act and the GST Act, buying, selling, conveying, delivering, storing, possessing and dealing in duty-unpaid goods are serious offences.<\/p>\n<p>Those caught can be fined up to 40 times the amount of duty and GST evaded and\/or jailed for up to six years. Vehicles used in committing such offences are also subject to forfeiture.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>[[nid:734175]]<\/p>\n<p>chingshijie@asiaone.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/singapore\/ica-officers-find-over-30-cartons-contraband-cigarettes-hidden-within-metal-frames-and\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore Customs is investigating a parcel containing contraband cigarettes that were flown into Singapore through airmail.\u00a0 In a Facebook reel shared on Thursday (April 23),&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46964","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=46964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}