Chitchat Four jailed and fined total of $110 million for duty-unpaid cigarettes...Guess Race??

[bobby]

Four repeat offenders who evaded more than $1 million in duty and tax were convicted of dealing with duty-unpaid cigarettes and sentenced to jail and a total fine of $110 million.

The four Singaporean men - Kamaruddin Abdul Latiff, 51, Mohamad Khair Jonid, 51, Noor Hazlan Selamat, 51, and Rahmad Mohd Yasin, 38 - had all been previously convicted of offences involving duty-unpaid cigarettes.

The total duty and Goods and Service Tax evaded by the four men amounted to about $1,204,420.

As repeat offenders, they were liable to enhanced punishment under the Customs Act.

Rahmad, Noor Hazlan and Mohamad Khair will each face 42 months' imprisonment and a fine of $34 million. In default of the payment, the men will face an additional 28 months' imprisonment.

Kamaruddin will face 33 months' imprisonment and a fine of $8 million. In default of the payment, he will face an additional 21 months in jail.

He will also face an enhanced sentence of 105 days' imprisonment for breach of basic conditions of his remission order.

In a press release yesterday, Singapore Customs said that on March 23 last year, its officers conducted a check on a 20-foot container parked at an industrial building in Sunview Road and uncovered 10,800 cartons of duty-unpaid cigarettes.

It added that investigations had revealed that over February and March last year, Rahmad had approached Noor Hazlan to look for a warehouse to store duty-unpaid cigarettes.

Noor Hazlan then engaged Mohamad Khair to rent a warehouse unit for this purpose. In return, Rahmad offered to pay Noor Hazlan and Mohamad Khair $2,500 each for every successful shipment of duty-unpaid cigarettes delivered to the unit.

Investigations also revealed that in March 2018, Kamaruddin had purchased 2,500 cartons of duty-unpaid cigarettes from Rahmad. The cartons were part of the consignment seized at Sunview Road last year.

In February this year, another Singaporean was fined $34 million after a record number of contraband cigarettes were seized.

On Feb 1, Ng Ghim Hong, 33, was charged with smuggling illegal cigarettes as part of a syndicate. He acted as the middleman in the operation to import and circulate "an unprecedented quantity" of duty-unpaid cigarettes in Singapore.

The 2,710kg of contraband cigarettes seized was the largest amount that sentencing courts have dealt with.

 

[Valium]

There goes my source of cheap fags.

 

[bobby]

Rahmad, Noor Hazlan and Mohamad Khair will each face 42 months' imprisonment and a fine of $34 million. In default of the payment, the men will face an additional 28 months' imprisonment.

Kamaruddin will face 33 months' imprisonment and a fine of $8 million. In default of the payment, he will face an additional 21 months in jail.

Liddat say Changi Hotel per night not cheap leh.....

 

[Valium]

Rahmad, Noor Hazlan and Mohamad Khair will each face 42 months' imprisonment and a fine of $34 million. In default of the payment, the men will face an additional 28 months' imprisonment.

Kamaruddin will face 33 months' imprisonment and a fine of $8 million. In default of the payment, he will face an additional 21 months in jail.

Liddat say Changi Hotel per night not cheap leh.....

They should volunteer themselves for another 30 months in changi and get $40million cash in return.

 

[no_faith]

20ft container go out PSA customs without scan?

 

[Insider Player]

These 4 are all patsies la. Big boss mastermind not caught.

 

[congo9]

Yes, I think they scan but wanted to let it go and see if they can catch the big fish.

 

[halsey02]

Yes, I think they scan but wanted to let it go and see if they can catch the big fish.

They only got the ikan bilis...stay in Changi Chalet & when out, mani waiting outside.

 

[congo9]

Anyway the reason for unusual large number of smuggling cigarettes in Singapore is that the price for local cig are too expensive. Thus create a pending demand. The cost of producing and the cost of selling of actual cig in Singapore is too great. In economic term, it created a black market for cheap or smuggling cig.

The only way to stop smuggling is to stop people smoking. Demand drop and supply will actually waned. But the problem is that the government figure out that it is too "expensive" not to allow smoking in Singapore. Coffee shops that has smoking corners is costing $250 per table extra for allowing smoking per month. Officer go out and actively catch smokers and government is enjoying a good revenue on it.

Go figure out, the cat and mouse game is out and the customs and ICA are losing it definitely.

 

[Insider Player]

Pap is not interested in banning cigs la.
The tax revenue is too good to give up.
Talking about health as burden on healthcare costs also bullshit la as health care pap also make profit haha...remember pap market subsidised healthcare?