Record number of contraband cases seen at checkpoints in 2018: ICA.
View photosAbout 6,000 cartons of duty-unpaid cigarettes were detected in a Malaysia-registered prime mover in May 2018. MoreThe number of contraband cases detected at Singapore checkpoints reached an all-time high in 2018, said the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority on Wednesday .From 90,327 cases of contraband items detected in 2017, the number rose to 107,771 last year, the highest annual figure ever recorded, said the authority in its annual statistics report.
The operations resulted in the arrest of 21 male Indonesians and the seizure of more than 102 cartons and 4,561 packets of duty-unpaid cigarettes. All 21 men received sentences, ranging from one to three months’ imprisonment and between three and six strokes of the cane, and will be repatriated after serving their sentences.View photosImmigration offenders caught in an enforcement blitz by the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority in 2018.
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