SINGAPORE – A general manager was fined $890,000 and sentenced to 33 months’ jail for customs offences on Sept 25 after pleading guilty to illegally removing uncustomed goods as well as importing them.
Between May 2018 and March 2019, he collected duty and goods and services tax payments from an importer who wanted to release 85,764 bottles of duty-suspended liquor and 79,993 cans of duty-suspended beer for the purpose of domestic consumption. “See admitted that some cans were released for WLNA staff to consume during a company event,” Singapore Customs said.
For the illegal removal of uncustomed goods, WLNA was fined $26,300 on Dec 1, 2022. It is no longer operating a licensed warehouse.Before June 2018, an unknown man had approached him to import and store 25,000 cartons of cigarettes in the premises, with the additional instruction that only 20,000 cartons be declared as imported.
See’s former colleague, Chin Seok Rui, 35, was convicted in court on Sept 26 after pleading guilty to three charges of fraudulent evasion of duty and GST in a separate case.
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