Man caught smuggling contraband cigarettes for the fourth time jailed 3-1/2 years, fined $10m
SINGAPORE - A man who was caught dealing in contraband cigarettes for the fourth time was jailed for 3½ years, or 42 months, and fined $10.416 million on Wednesday .Raymond Soh Tian Khoon, 53, was first convicted on October 17, 2006 for delivering 200 cartons of duty-unpaid cigarettes, and jailed for 10 months.He was caught a third time in 2013, while on bail for his 2012 offence, for importing 90 cartons and 604 packets of duty-unpaid cigarettes.
In the latest case, Soh and five other men were arrested on April 12, 2017 by Singapore Customs officers during an operation at an industrial building in Bukit Batok Street 23. According to investigations, Soh coordinated the delivery of the cigarettes, directing one of the men to drive the truck to the industrial building.
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