Singapore Customs Arrests 4, Seizes Over 9,000 Cartons of Cigarettes for Skirting Duties
Singapore Customs arrested four Singaporean nationals and seized more than 9,081 carts of cigarettes for non-payment of duties on the goods, the agency announced in a May 19 joint news release with the Immigration & Checkpoints Authority. The seized shipment…
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of 9,081 cartons and eight packets of cigarettes held an unpaid-duty and Goods and Services tax value of $776,550 and $62,280 (in Singapore dollars), respectively. ICA officers detected anomalies in a 20-foot container at Pasir Panjang Scanning Station and Singapore Customs arrested the men shipping the container the next day, the release said. Under the Customs and GST acts, parties deemed guilty can be fined up to 40 times the amount of the evaded duty and/or jailed for up to six years, the release said.