5,000 contraband cigarettes seized at Woodlands Checkpoint

• Clivebenss

  7 Sep 11, 16:36

  Posted: 07 September 2011 1623 hrs

  SINGAPORE: Some 5,000 cartons of contraband cigarettes were seized at the Woodlands Checkpoint in the last two days.
  
  The Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) said the potential duty and GST involved amounted to some S$385,000.
  
  Early on Monday morning, some 4,000 cartons were seized from a Malaysia-registered truck which was declared to be conveying a consignment of assorted second-hand trousers and shirts.
  
  Just hours later, another 130 cartons were found hidden in various parts of a Malaysia-registered car.
  
  And on Tuesday, close to 900 cartons of illegal cigarettes were seized from a Malaysia-registered truck declared to be carrying a consignment of blue empty drum barrels.
  
  Five males, aged between 21 to 47 years old, were handed over to the Singapore Customs for investigation.
  
  -AFP/ac

• ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~

  7 Sep 11, 16:40

  ciggarette many many...

   

  smoke ah~~~

   

  

• Clivebenss

  7 Sep 11, 19:36

  hard habit to break.

  

• Mr Milo

  7 Sep 11, 22:10

   

  Times are bad

• RemifanSo

  9 Sep 11, 22:29

  NEA focuses on contraband cigarettes.   No smokers caught smoking less than 5 metres away from bus stops.    Health of nation is not important, money more important.