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Three times unlucky 

THREE separate attempts to smuggle contraband items through Woodlands checkpoint within a span of 24 hours went awry, as more than 2,000 packets of duty-unpaid cigarettes with the potential customs duty of $14,000 and Goods and Services Tax (GST) of $1,270 were flushed out by alert Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) officers.

The three petty smugglers reused old methods of concealing the contraband items, in the vain belief that the officers were only looking out for new smuggling methods.

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