Trio who stored nearly 58k vape items in Lentor, Sembawang get between 10 and 17 months’ jail

Published Oct 01, 2026, 12:50 PM

Updated Oct 01, 2026, 12:50 PM

Three men from a criminal group storing nearly 58,000 vape products were each sentenced to between 10 and 17 months' jail on Oct 1.

Ng Tai Lun, Adrian Chia Hong Qing and Tan Yi Tan were among six people who were convicted in September.

The other three were Wong Ee Wei, Tiffany Lim Hui Peng, and Kenneth Tan Hong Chang, whose cases are pending.

SINGAPORE - Three men who admitted being part of a syndicate that stored nearly 58,000 vape products in two “warehouses” were each sentenced to jail on Oct 1.

Ng Tai Lun, 27, and Adrian Chia Hong Qing, 33, had acted as “local distributors” and were in the middle rung of the three-tiered syndicate.

Chia, who earned around $100,000 when he was a syndicate member, was sentenced to a year and five months’ jail, and a fine of $100,000.

He will have to spend an additional four months behind bars if he fails to pay the fine.

He had earlier pleaded guilty to one count each of being a member of the syndicate and engaging in a conspiracy to possess more than 12,000 vaporisers at one of the “warehouses” - a rented terraced house in Lentor.

Ng had earned about $40,000 while he was part of the syndicate, and he was also sentenced to a year and five months’ jail on Oct 1.

He was fined $97,600, and will be spending another four months, three weeks and two days behind bars should he fail to pay it .

He had pleaded guilty to one count each of being a member of the syndicate and engaging in a conspiracy to possess over 12,000 vaporisers at the Lentor “warehouse”.

Ng had also admitted to two other unrelated offences - one count each of drink driving and causing a van to remain at rest on a road, endangering other motorists.

For drink driving, he was also disqualified from holding or obtaining all classes of driving licences for three years and four months.

The third man, Tan Yi Tan, 36, was an “area distributor”, occupying the lowest rung in the syndicate.

Tan, who earned around $38,400 while working for the group, was sentenced to 10 months’ jail and a fine of $38,400.

Should he fail to pay the fine, he will have to spend an additional six weeks in jail.

He had pleaded guilty to one count each of being a member of the syndicate, and being in possession of vape-related products for sale.

The trio were among six people who were convicted in September for being part of the criminal group.

The other three are: Wong Ee Wei, 29, Tiffany Lim Hui Peng, 30, and Kenneth Tan Hong Chang, 31.

Lim is Kenneth Tan’s wife and the trio’s cases are pending.

Wong and Kenneth Tan had admitted they were leaders in the group.

They took instructions from a person known only as “Nobody”, purportedly based in Malaysia.

The leaders managed the “warehouses” - the Lentor one and a condominium in the Canberra area in Sembawang.

They also coordinated the deliveries of vape products from Malaysia as arranged by “Nobody”.

Lim, like Ng and Chia, was a “local distributor”.

Those on this middle rung earned up to $8,000 monthly, and met “area distributors” to assign them the orders for the day and collect earnings.

The court heard that the group delivered up to 210 orders of vaporisers and components daily.

A seventh offender, Roy Tan Jun Jie, 34, was sentenced to 10 months’ jail and fined $45,000 on Aug 19.

In an unrelated case, the court heard that Ng had consumed up to eight small glasses of beer at a Telok Ayer Street pub on June 5, before driving home to Jurong in a van.

He was at a signalised traffic junction between Lorong 5 and Lorong 4 Toa Payoh before 2.30am when he nodded off while waiting for the lights to change in his favour.

The van remained stationary, and he did not respond even when another motorist sounded the horn.

A police officer found him reeking of alcohol.

He had 80 micrograms of alcohol in 100ml of breath. This was more than double the prescribed limit of 35 micrograms of alcohol in the same amount of breath.

Shaffiq Alkhatib is The Straits Times’ court correspondent, covering mainly criminal cases heard at the State Courts.

发布于2026年10月1日下午12:50

更新于2026年10月1日下午12:50

10 月 1 日，一个犯罪团伙的三名成员因储存近 58,000 件电子烟产品而被判处 10 至 17 个月的监禁。

吴大伦、谢鸿庆和陈怡谭是九月份被判有罪的六人之一。

其他三人分别是黄义伟、林慧萍和陈鸿昌，他们的案件仍在审理中。

新加坡——三名男子承认参与了一个犯罪团伙，该团伙在两个“仓库”中储存了近 58,000 件电子烟产品，三人于 10 月 1 日分别被判入狱。

27 岁的 Ng Tai Lun 和 33 岁的 Adrian Chia Hong Qing 担任“本地分销商”，是三级犯罪集团的中层成员。

Chia曾是犯罪团伙成员，收入约10万美元，被判处一年零五个月监禁，并处罚金10万美元。

如果他未能缴纳罚款，他将不得不额外服刑四个月。

他此前已承认犯有一项罪名，即作为犯罪集团成员参与一项阴谋，在其中一个“仓库”（伦托尔的一栋租来的排屋）内持有超过 12,000 个电子烟。

吴某在参与犯罪团伙期间赚取了约 4 万美元，并于 10 月 1 日被判处一年零五个月监禁。

他被罚款 97,600 美元，如果他不缴纳罚款，还将被判处 4 个月零 3 周零 2 天的监禁。

他承认犯有一项罪名，即作为犯罪集团成员参与阴谋，在 Lentor “仓库”持有超过 12,000 个电子烟。

吴某还承认了另外两项无关的罪行——一项酒后驾驶罪和一项导致货车停在路上危及其他驾驶员罪。

因酒后驾车，他还被取消持有或取得所有类型驾驶执照的资格，为期三年零四个月。

第三名男子谭义谭，36岁，是一名“区域分销商”，在犯罪集团中处于最低级别。

谭某在为该团伙工作期间收入约 38,400 美元，被判处 10 个月监禁并处罚金 38,400 美元。

如果他未能缴纳罚款，他将不得不额外服刑六周。

他承认犯有两项罪名：一项是作为犯罪集团成员，另一项是持有用于销售的电子烟相关产品。

这三人是九月份因参与犯罪集团而被定罪的六人之一。

其他三人分别是：29岁的黄义伟、30岁的林慧萍和31岁的陈鸿昌。

林是陈建国的妻子，三人的案件仍在审理中。

黄和陈建民都承认他们是该组织的领导者。

他们听命于一个只被称为“无名氏”的人，此人据称居住在马来西亚。

这些领导人管理着“仓库”——伦托尔仓库和位于三巴旺堪培拉地区的一处公寓。

他们还协调了由“无名氏”安排的从马来西亚运送电子烟产品的事宜。

林和吴、谢一样，都是“本地经销商”。

处于这个中层的人每月收入高达 8000 美元，他们会与“区域分销商”见面，由分销商分配当天的订单并收取收入。

法庭获悉，该团伙每天交付多达 210 份电子烟及其组件的订单。

第七名罪犯，34岁的陈俊杰（Roy Tan Jun Jie），于8月19日被判处10个月监禁并罚款45000美元。

在另一起案件中，法庭获悉，吴某于 6 月 5 日在直落亚逸街的一家酒吧喝了多达八小杯啤酒，然后开车乘面包车返回裕廊的家。

凌晨 2 点 30 分之前，他在大巴窑 5 巷和 4 巷之间的一个有信号灯的交通路口等红灯时睡着了。

面包车停在那里不动，即使另一位司机鸣笛，他也没有回应。

一名警官发现他身上散发着浓烈的酒气。

他每100毫升呼气中含有80微克酒精，是规定上限（每100毫升呼气中含有35微克酒精）的两倍多。

沙菲克·阿尔哈提卜是《海峡时报》的法庭记者，主要报道国家法院审理的刑事案件。