Singapore Police Seize $3.7 Million in Illegal Vapes
Credit: Sharaf Maksumov
More than S$5 million ($3.7 million) worth of vape products were seized during a warehouse raid at Woodlands Industrial Park on Apr 24 in Singapore.
It is the second-largest seizure of vaping products, coming a month after a record haul in March that was worth more than S$6 million.
Officers from the Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) were conducting an enforcement operation when they found more than 400,000 vaping products and alerted the Health Sciences Authority (HSA), according to an ICA statement.
Last year, Singapore authorities handled around 8,000 vaping-related offenses, a 43 percent jump from the 5,600 in 2022. A total of 7,600 offenses were recorded in 2021.
From Jan. 1 to March 31 this year, more than 2,200 people were caught possessing and using vaping products.
