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Eight cigarette smugglers jailed

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Eight Indonesian nationals have been jailed for smuggling contraband cigarettes over the past two days. — ST PHOTO: WANG HUI FEN

By Elena Chong

Eight Indonesian nationals have been jailed for smuggling contraband cigarettes over the past two days.

Four of them – Jamal, 41, Hasan, 28, Linggo Laksito, 31, and Abdul Salam, 29 – were each given two years’ jail on Thursday for importing 1,375 cartons of duty-unpaid cigarettes and not paying goods and services tax on the goods on board Dahlia II at Jurong River on Tuesday.

The unpaid excise duty and GST amounted to $118,976 and $10,348 respectively.

Background story

Refer to an earlier article on the story here. Pictures: Cartons of illegal cigarettes seized from 2 Indonesian vessels

On Friday, four more Indonesians on board wooden coaster K. M. Seni Jaya, who were arrested on Tuesday night, were given between 18 months and 22 months for smuggling 1,164 cartons of assorted cigarettes at the same location.

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