{
  "id": 15693025,
  "title": "ICA foils cigarette-smuggling attempt by Malaysian driver at Woodlands Checkpoint",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/ica-foils-cigarette-smuggling-attempt-by-malaysian-driver-at",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-20T03:00:41.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Independent Singapore",
    "slug": "the-independent-singapore",
    "url": "https://theindependent.sg/ica-foils-cigarette-smuggling-attempt-by-malaysian-driver-at-woodlands-checkpoint"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "SINGAPORE: The Immigration and Checkpoints Authority officers recently caught a Malaysian-registered car at the Woodlands Checkpoint, carrying a large quantity of tax-evaded cigarettes into Singapore. On social media , ICA shared that more than 700 cartons and over 2,000 packets of duty-unpaid cigarettes were found in various modified compartments of the car and that these were referred to the…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}