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A 25-year-old man was taken to court on May 19 for allegedly trafficking etomidate-laced vape pods, also known as Kpods.<\/p>\n
Muhammad Danial Mohd Shahri was caught when authorities raided his home in Punggol on May 17 and found 39 vape pods.<\/p>\n
The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) said in a statement on Wednesday (May 27) that the seized pods were sent for laboratory testing and confirmed to contain etomidate.<\/p>\n
The man was remanded for a week to assist with further investigations.<\/p>\n
His case was heard again on May 26, and proceedings have been adjourned to July 21.<\/p>\n
Under the new Tobacco and Vaporisers Control Act<\/a> \u2014 which took effect from May 1 \u2014 etomidate and its analogues are listed as specified psychoactive substances.<\/p>\n Importers now face jail time of between three to 20 years, and five to 15 strokes of the cane. They can also be fined up to $300,000, 30 times the previous amount.<\/p>\n Suppliers can face a sentence of two to 10 years’ jail, and two to five strokes of the cane. The fine is up to $200,000, a 20-fold increase.<\/p>\n A total of 2,590 people were caught with vaporisers in the first three months of 2026<\/a>. Some 377 of these vape users had Kpods in their possession, the authorities said earlier in May.<\/p>\n [[nid:736573]]<\/p>\n lim.kewei@asiaone.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n A 25-year-old man was taken to court on May 19 for allegedly trafficking etomidate-laced vape pods, also known as Kpods. Muhammad Danial Mohd Shahri was…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56140,"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-56139","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\/56139","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=56139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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