Daily Singapore News

On 6 July 2009, Tay Kien Chuan, a 33-year-old Singaporean was found guilty by the Court and fined S$10.816 million or in default, 354 weeks in jail for fraudulent evasion of duty and GST on cars imported from Japan. He is also sentenced to spend 42 months in jail for providing bogus information to Customs officers on cars imported from UK.

The charges linked to a total of 2,556 cars. Tay pleaded guilty to 327 charges and the rest of the 1,668 charges were taken into consideration. The total duty and GST involved is more than S$2.5 million.

Read more on Man Fined S$10.8 Million for Evasion of Duty & GST on Cars Imported From Japan [PDF].

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