Smoking hot tomato soup: ICA seizes 2,400 cartons of duty-unpaid cigarettes hidden in lorry load

Merzsam Singkee
Sun, 14 Sep 2025 05:53:28 +0000
Singapore News, duty-unpaid cigarettes, ICA, illegal smuggling

SINGAPORE: It was supposed to be a lorry full of tomatoes, but what ICA officers at Tuas Checkpoint found on Sept 5 was far from something you’d put into a salad. Tucked inside the consignment were 2,400 cartons of duty-unpaid cigarettes, disguised under the label of “tomatoes”. According to the Facebook post of the ICA …