{"id":79570,"date":"2026-08-26T07:02:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T23:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=79570"},"modified":"2026-08-26T07:02:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T23:02:45","slug":"more-than-28kg-of-cocaine-seized-from-vessel-in-singapore-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=79570","title":{"rendered":"More than 28kg of cocaine seized from vessel in Singapore waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SINGAPORE \u2013<!-- --> <!-- -->The authorities seized<!-- --> <!-- -->more than 28kg of cocaine<!-- --> from a <!-- -->foreign-registered commercial vessel<!-- --> <!-- -->in Singapore waters<!-- --> <!-- -->on Aug 21.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Police Coast Guard officers, <!-- -->acting on a tip-off<!-- -->, conducted a search of the vessel and <!-- -->found two packages believed to contain controlled drugs<!-- -->, the police said in a statement on Aug 25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The packages were found <!-- -->hidden in the vessel\u2019s sea chest strainers<!-- -->, which are filtration devices in a ship\u2019s seawater intake system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The <!-- -->Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) was alerted and took over the case<!-- -->. The packages were seized, and were later found to contain more than 28kg of cocaine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Preliminary investigations by CNB found that <!-- -->the vessel was transiting through Singapore, and that<!-- --> <!-- -->the drugs were not meant for the local market<!-- -->.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">CNB investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Anyone<!-- --> <!-- -->found guilty of importing into or exporting from Singapore more than 30g of cocaine may face the <!-- -->mandatory<!-- --> <!-- -->death penalty<!-- -->.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/more-than-28kg-of-cocaine-seized-from-foreign-registered-commercial-vessel-in-singapore-waters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 The authorities seized more than 28kg of cocaine from a foreign-registered commercial vessel in Singapore waters on Aug 21. Police Coast Guard officers,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79571,"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-79570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79570","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=79570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}