Smuggling

Polish army reports increased small drone activity near Belarus border

Man charged over trafficking almost 2,000 Kpods; he was caught with 4-month-old child in car

ICA officers discovered the vaporiser pods concealed in two boxes in the car boot.

2 men arrested for suspected drug trafficking; over 4kg of cannabis and $420k seized

The drugs seized are estimated to be more than $123,000.

Thailand seizes over 330 million methamphetamine tablets in 4-month crackdown

The Thai authorities also seized 11,008 kg of crystal meth, close to 2,000kg of ketamine and 269 kg of heroin in the operations.

16 weeks’ jail for man who smuggled 5 Pomeranian puppies from Malaysia into S’pore in car boot

Bryan Peh Jia Hao was sentenced to 16 weeks' jail on Jan 16 after admitting to smuggling five Pomeranian puppies from Malaysia to Singapore in a car boot.

Greek court acquits aid workers of migrant-smuggling charges

Aid workers, including Sean Binder and Sarah Mardini pose with other aid workers involved in refugee rescues, after the verdict in their trial at the town of Mytilene on the island of Lesbos, Greece, January 15, 2026. REUTERS/Elias Marcou

More than 340 e-vaporisers, related components seized at checkpoints between Jan 5 and 8: ICA

ICA noted that about 67 per cent of the cases involved short-term visitors and 33 per cent were Singapore residents.

‘Vape valley’: Double standards in China’s powering of world’s e-cigarette boom

Vape shells waiting to be spray-painted and inspected by a row of workers in a small workshop in Shenzhen.

Iran says foreign tanker carrying smuggled fuel seized in Gulf

Taiwanese smugglers controlled vessel that damaged subsea cables, says China after probe

This handout photo taken and released on Feb 25 by the Taiwan Coast Guard shows the detained Togolese-registered ship "Hongtai" in Penghu. Taiwan detained the Chinese-crewed cargo ship after a subsea telecoms cable was severed off the island, the coast guard said.

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