men jailed for smuggling chewing tobacco into Singapore using Malaysian-registered vehicles.
SINGAPORE: Three men have been jailed for their roles in smuggling more than 25,000 sachets of chewing tobacco from Malaysia into Singapore, the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) said in a press release on Wednesday (May 22). Malaysian national Saravana Kumar Lechumanan, 30, was sentenced to seven months’ imprisonment after recruiting couriers to bring the tobacco into Singapore. It is the stiffest punishment to date for importing chewing tobacco, HSA said. Two couriers, both Malaysian nationals, were also handed jail terms. Darmindran Magentheran, 23, was sentenced to six weeks’imprisonment while Kalidas Balakrishnan, 33, was given four weeks’ imprisonment. A total of 25,659 sachets of Hans Chhap khaini tobacco were uncovered on five occasions between June and September 2018 by officers from the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority.
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