Singapore Seizes Duty-Unpaid Cigarettes, Arrests Alleged Offender
Singapore Customs on May 9 arrested a man and seized over 1,500 cartons of cigarettes that were allegedly skirting customs duties on the shipments, Singapore Customs announced. Customs officers observed a transaction at a construction site where "a suspicious consignment…
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of goods was delivered earlier," the customs agency said. A man later arrived to receive the consignment. The officers, after checking out the goods, found 1,586 cartons and 18 packets of cigarettes for which duties had not been paid hidden in the consignment of two electrical panels. The duty and Goods and Services tax evaded totaled $135,590 and $10,790, respectively, the release said. The man already is involved in an ongoing court proceeding for dealing in duty-unpaid cigarettes in December 2020, and was convicted for the same offense in 2011.