On 6 May 2023, officers from the Singapore Police Force (SPF) and Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) acted on information received from a member of the public and conducted a joint operation that uncovered fireworks concealed in a container shipment at Pasir Panjang Terminal. The shipment which was declared by an overseas consignor in China purportedly to be carrying general cargo was transiting through Singapore to Yemen. However, SPF and ICA’s checks showed that the shipment consisted of fireworks packed in 979 carton boxes, which were concealed among another 130 carton boxes containing plastic cups.
On 19 May 2023, a 26-year-old man, Das Ashish Kumar (“Ashish”), was sentenced to five weeks’ imprisonment for an offence under Section 5(1) of the Payment Services Act 2019 and punishable under Section 5(3)(a) of the same Act read with Section 109 of the Penal Code, Chapter 224. He was convicted of the same offence on 17 May 2023.
The Police would like to alert members of the public of a phishing scam variant involving the download of a fake ScamShield App. Members of the public are advised not to download any suspicious app on their devices as they may contain phishing malware which allows the scammers to take control of the victim’s devices.