{"id":54334,"date":"2026-05-22T07:35:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T23:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=54334"},"modified":"2026-05-22T07:35:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T23:35:36","slug":"disguised-as-instant-noodles-over-9300-duty-unpaid-cigarettes-seized-at-changi-airfreight-centre-singapore-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=54334","title":{"rendered":"Disguised as instant noodles: Over 9,300 duty-unpaid cigarettes seized at Changi Airfreight Centre , Singapore News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) foiled an attempt to smuggle duty-unpaid cigarettes disguised as instant noodles at Changi Airfreight Centre on May 12.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a Facebook post on Thursday (May 21), the authority said that ICA officers, acting on a tip-off from ICA&#8217;s Integrated Targeting Centre, flagged a cargo consignment declared as instant noodles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Subsequent checks uncovered more than 9,300 sticks of duty-unpaid cigarettes concealed within the parcels.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The exhibits were referred to Singapore Customs for further investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Those found buying, selling, conveying, possessing or dealing with duty-unpaid goods may be fined up to 40 times the amount of duty evaded, jailed for up to six years, or both.<\/p>\n<p>Vehicles used in these offences and the proceeds of sales of duty-unpaid goods may also be forfeited.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"792\" width=\"500\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FImmigration.Checkpoints.Authority%2Fposts%2Fpfbid02iBYG6rF6H9oJgHdvK4U93o5AYmSA8SpuCQ4TpVoQJfB1VSru87ejCaNoECiqrpu9l&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\">\u00a0<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>[[nid:735828]]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/singapore\/mailto:esther.lam@asiaone.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">esther.lam@asiaone.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/singapore\/ica-customs-duty-unpaid-cigarettes-9300-instant-noodles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) foiled an attempt to smuggle duty-unpaid cigarettes disguised as instant noodles at Changi Airfreight Centre on May 12.\u00a0 In&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54335,"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-54334","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\/54334","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=54334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}