SINGAPORE: A 33-year-old Malaysian was caught smuggling 10,000 cartons of duty-unpaid cigarettes into Singapore, the Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) said in a news release on Thursday (Apr 13).
At about 4.30am on Wednesday, officers at Tuas Checkpoint approached the man, who was driving a Malaysia-registered lorry.
The officers noticed anomalies in the scanned images of the lorry, which was carrying a consignment that had been declared to contain “ceramic fibres”.
In the course of checks, duty-unpaid cigarettes were found hidden among the consignment, ICA said.
The driver, as well as the duty-unpaid cigarettes and lorry have been handed over to Singapore Customs for investigations, ICA added.
The total duty and goods and services tax evaded amounted to about S$776,000 and S$57,510 respectively.
