SINGAPORE \u2013 Two men have been arrested at Woodlands Checkpoint for attempting to smuggle duty-unpaid cigarettes and vapes into Singapore via motorcycles.<\/p>\n
The men were caught in separate incidents on Aug 3 and 4, the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) said in a Facebook post on Aug 13.<\/p>\n
In the Aug 3 incident, ICA officers directed a Malaysia-registered motorcycle for enhanced checks and uncovered more than 30 packets of duty-unpaid cigarettes, along with over 60 vapes and related components, concealed in the storage box.<\/p>\n
In the Aug 4 incident, a search of a Singapore-registered motorcycle revealed 25 cartons and 30 packets of duty-unpaid cigarettes, as well as more than 60 vapes. The contraband was hidden under the seat and in the storage box.<\/p>\n
A 46-year-old Malaysian man and a 51-year-old Singaporean man were arrested, ICA said.<\/p>\n
The authority added that the suspects and exhibits were referred to the Singapore Customs and Health Sciences Authority for further investigation.<\/p>\n
Those found guilty of buying, selling, conveying, delivering, storing, keeping, possessing or dealing in duty-unpaid cigarettes can be fined up to 40 times the amount of duty and tax evaded, jailed for up to six years, or both.<\/p>\n
Vehicles used in committing such offences are also liable to be forfeited.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/figure>\n Vaping is also illegal in Singapore. Anyone caught using vapes\u00a0can be fined up to $10,000, while sellers face fines of up to $200,000 and up to six years in jail. Smugglers can be fined up to $300,000 and jailed for up to nine years.<\/p>\n Foreigners caught with vapes more than once may have their passes revoked and receive a permanent re-entry ban.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE \u2013 Two men have been arrested at Woodlands Checkpoint for attempting to smuggle duty-unpaid cigarettes and vapes into Singapore via motorcycles. The men were…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76360,"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-76359","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\/76359","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=76359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/picture><\/div>\n
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