Man fined S$17,500 for flying into Singapore with 200kg of meat in luggage

SFA officers were on June 8 alerted by ICA to luggage that was found to contain assorted meat products at Changi Airport. - SINGAPORE FOOD AGENCY/FACEBOOK

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): A man travelling from China carried in his luggage more than 200kg of frozen meat, including rabbit meat and mutton.

Chinese national Wang Liansheng, 68, was fined $17,500 on Thursday for illegally importing assorted meat products into Singapore, said the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) and Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA).