Man jailed, fined for role in syndicate storing 58k vape items in Lentor, Sembawang ‘warehouses’
He had pleaded guilty to offences including being a member of a syndicate that dealt with vape items.
Roy Tan Jun Jie, a 34-year-old man, was sentenced to 10 months in jail and fined $45,000 for his involvement in a syndicate that stored nearly 58,000 vape products in two warehouses in Lentor and Canberra, Sembawang. Tan, who admitted to being an area distributor in the group, was found guilty of possessing 31 vaporisers meant for sale.
The syndicate delivered up to 210 orders of vaporisers and components daily, and there were 13 other people involved. Three of them - Wong Ee Wei, Tey Ler Wei, and Kenneth Tan Hong Chang - were alleged to be local syndicate leaders who received instructions from a person known as "Nobody", believed to be based in Malaysia. Tan was the first person from the group to admit being involved with the syndicate.
Authorities seized nearly 20,000 vape-related items from the Lentor house and over 38,000 from the Canberra property.
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