Chinese national skips S$560,000 fine for smuggling 30,000 bottles of beer in Singapore, heads to jail instead
SINGAPORE, Sept 5 — A Chinese national has been slapped with a record S$560,000 (RM1.74 million) fine for mastermi...
A Chinese national, Han Xiaoyang, has been sentenced to 164 days in jail after evading duty on nearly 30,000 bottles of beer smuggled into Singapore. The 47-year-old orchestrated a scheme to import duty-unpaid beer from China, evading over S$60,127 (RM187,000) in taxes. Due to his refusal to pay the fine, Han will serve the jail term instead.
This comes after Customs officers discovered the operation during a raid in November, seizing 4,044 bottles of unpaid beer and uncovering a total of 35,060 bottles hidden elsewhere. His accomplice, Tong Baobao, was separately sentenced to 80 days in jail in May for his role in the scheme, which involved fraudulent duty evasion and GST evasion.
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