{"id":65054,"date":"2026-06-30T20:52:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=65054"},"modified":"2026-06-30T20:52:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:52:04","slug":"four-men-nabbed-as-singapore-cracks-down-on-first-suspected-transnational-kpod-syndicate-under-tougher-anti-vaping-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=65054","title":{"rendered":"Four men nabbed as Singapore cracks down on first suspected transnational Kpod syndicate under tougher anti-vaping law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The arrests came after investigations into a case earlier this year, where more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/kpod-vape-smuggling-malaysia-woodlands-checkpoint-6123036\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">S$800,000 worth of etomidate pods<\/a> were seized from two Malaysians at Singapore&#8217;s Woodlands Checkpoint.<\/p>\n<p>HSA warned that it takes a serious view of vaporiser and etomidate trafficking offences.<\/p>\n<p><span>Etomidate, an <\/span>anaesthetic agent that has been found in vapes, has been <span>listed as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/vaping-etomidate-kpods-class-c-drug-ong-ye-kung-5311236\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>a Class C drug<\/span> in the Misuse of Drugs Act <\/a>since last September.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>This means that it is\u00a0illegal to traffic, manufacture, import, export, possess or consume\u00a0etomidate without authorisation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Under the law, drugs are classified into Class A, B and C, with Class A being the most strictly controlled, such as heroin, cocaine and cannabis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/etomidate-kpod-vape-amended-law-hsa-transnational-syndicate-6221231\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The arrests came after investigations into a case earlier this year, where more than S$800,000 worth of etomidate pods were seized from two Malaysians at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65055,"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-65054","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\/65054","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=65054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}