Traveller caught trying to sneak over $1.3m past Singapore Customs
A traveller is currently under investigation for attempting to bring more than $1.3 million into Singapore.
On Nov 27, the 49-year-old man was detected carrying cash in multiple currencies. He was found to have provided an inaccurate report on the cross-border movement of Cash or Bearer Negotiable Instruments (CBNIs) by under-declaring the amount.
He is one of eight travellers caught moving cash exceeding $20,000 into Singapore without declaration or providing an inaccurate report during the operations, said the police, the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA), Singapore Customs and the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) in a joint statement on Wednesday (Dec 4).
The authorities conducted a multi-agency enforcement operations across the land, sea, and air checkpoints from Nov 25 to Nov 29.
These operations were part of efforts to detect and enforce against non-compliance of Singapore’s Cross-Border Cash Reporting Regime (CBCRR) and other illegal cross-border activities.