SINGAPORE – A man who was caught by officers from the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) with more than 21,000 e-cigarettes and pods in a van he had been driving was sentenced to 22 weeks\u2019 jail on July 27.<\/p>\n
Desmond Lim De Wen, 45, was also fined $7,000. He pleaded guilty to four charges including the possession of e-cigarettes for sale and offering e-cigarettes for sale.<\/p>\n
Another 10 charges for similar offences were taken into consideration for sentencing.<\/p>\n
The court heard that Lim was offered a job to buy and re-sell e-cigarette paraphernalia by a person he knew as \u201cCashcat\u201d on Telegram.<\/p>\n
His job required him to drive a van to collect parcels containing the e-cigarettes and load them into the vehicle.<\/p>\n
Lim would park the vehicle at the car park near his home in Yishun, and leave the keys to the van by the front right tyre.<\/p>\n
He accepted the job as he did not have a full-time job and was in debt, court documents stated.<\/p>\n
On Oct 9, 2024, Lim received a call from \u201cCashcat\u201d to collect the van for a job. He was told to drive to Mattar Road and load boxes of vapes that had been left unattended by the roadside into the van.<\/p>\n
Once he had done so, he drove the van back to Yishun and left the keys by the front tyre. He received $50 for the job.<\/p>\n
The next day, he was told to drive to Kent Road at about 11.30pm to load more boxes of vapes into the van.<\/p>\n
While loading the goods, an unknown man told him he had to pick up more boxes further down the road.<\/p>\n
He followed the unknown man\u2019s instructions and drove back to the Yishun carpark, where he was stopped by Singapore Customs officers at about 6am on Oct 11, 2024.<\/p>\n
HSA officers who later arrived on scene found seven cartons in Lim\u2019s van, containing 21,078 vapes and related components.<\/p>\n
The items were worth more than $234,000, said HSA Senior Prosecuting Counsel Jolene Chia.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/figure>\n Other than helping \u201cCashcat\u201d collect cartons of vapes, Lim also admitting to selling vapes to his own customers on several occasions between August and September 2024.<\/p>\n For the possession of vapes for sale, an offender can be fined up to $10,000, jailed up to six months, or both.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE – A man who was caught by officers from the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) with more than 21,000 e-cigarettes and pods in a van…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72276,"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-72275","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\/72275","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=72275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/picture><\/div>\n
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