date:Feb 25, 2020
Last week, officers from the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) seized thousands of cartons of duty-unpaid cigarettes declared as vegetables in a lorry.
In the incident, which happened at about 4.40am, officers at Woodlands Checkpoint grew suspicious when they found anomalies in the scanned images of a consignment in a Malaysia-registered lorry. The consignment had been declared as vegetables - but when officers carried out further checks, they discovered 5,220 cartons of duty-unpaid c