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SINGAPORE: Six members of a local syndicate that distributed electronic vaporisers from Malaysia<\/a> using two warehouses in Singapore were sentenced to jail and fined on Friday (Oct 23).<\/p>\n The organised crime syndicate operated in a hierarchy, with syndicate leaders taking instructions from a person based in Malaysia and known only as “Nobody”.<\/p>\n The six Singaporean men who were sentenced on Friday were: Tey Ler Wei, 30, Teo Jin Rui, 29, Tan Boon Hao, 31, Feelix Teo Wang Chye, 30, Iu Bing Yuan, 38, and Nigel Khing Yao Zhi, 28.<\/p>\n Tey, who was a local syndicate leader, received 25 months’ jail and a fine of S$100,000 (US$78,000).<\/p>\n Teo, next highest in rank of the lot as a local distributor operating a warehouse in Lentor, was sentenced to 21 months’ jail and a fine of S$100,000.<\/p>\n The other four, who were area distributors on the lowest rung of the syndicate, received 10 months’ jail each and fines of between S$8,000 and S$24,000.<\/p>\n The syndicate ran from mid-2022 to Oct 16, 2025, distributing vapes imported from Malaysia.<\/p>\n Tey was roped into the group by co-accused Wong Ee Wei, one of the local syndicate leaders.<\/p>\n Tey started out as an area distributor, receiving packed orders from local distributors and delivering them to customers who placed orders with “Nobody”.<\/p>\n Each area distributor was assigned a specific postal area, reporting any unsuccessful deliveries to the group and collecting the payments in cash.<\/p>\n Tey did this for about a year, earning an average of S$5,500 per month.<\/p>\n In mid-2023, he rose in rank and began working as a local distributor in a warehouse in Mandai Road.<\/p>\n He earned S$8,000 a month in this role, helping run the warehouses, receiving supply deliveries, packing parcels and landing them to area distributors.\u00a0<\/p>\n After 18 months as a local distributor, Tey took over management of the warehouse in Mandai Road from Wong, as a local syndicate leader.\u00a0<\/p>\n Wong became a “sleeping partner” receiving 70 per cent of the earnings.<\/p>\n As local syndicate leader from December 2024, Tey earned at least S$4,500 a month. He also recruited others as distributors.<\/p>\n Tey also sold vapes to customers through resellers or agents who placed orders directly with him, directing distributors to prepare their delivery orders.<\/p>\n He had a 50-50 profit sharing arrangement with the resellers or agents, after deducting the cost of the vapes.<\/p>\n Tey estimated that he earned about S$18,000 per month in monthly additional income from direct orders.<\/p>\n In total across his time with the syndicate, Tey earned about S$435,000.<\/p>\n On Oct 16, 2025, the authorities swept in and seized more than 57,000 vapes and related components from the syndicate’s two warehouses.<\/p>\n Tey was arrested on Oct 23, 2025.<\/p>\n In a sentencing table, the prosecution set out proposed sentences for each of the six members, with the highest sentence being sought for Tey.<\/p>\n They pegged Tey’s culpability as high, followed by Teo, whose culpability was medium as a local distributor.<\/p>\n The remaining four members had low culpability as area distributors.<\/p>\n Two other local syndicate leaders had been sentenced previously<\/a>. Wong received 25 months’ jail and a fine of S$100,000, while Kenneth Tan Hong Chang was sentenced to 45 months’ jail, a fine of S$36,000 and a driving ban.<\/p>\n For being a member of a locally linked organised criminal group, a person can be jailed for up to five years or fined up to S$100,000, or both.<\/p>\n For conspiring to possess vapes for sale, an offender can be jailed for up to six months or fined up to S$10,000, or both.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE: Six members of a local syndicate that distributed electronic vaporisers from Malaysia using two warehouses in Singapore were sentenced to jail and fined on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95888,"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-95887","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\/95887","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=95887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/95888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}THE CASE<\/h2>\n
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