BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN: An Indonesian national, Nurfaiz, 47, was fined over BND 1.6 million (US$1.2mil) by the magistrate’s court after pleading guilty to two counts of illegal cigarette possession.
He was fined BND1,547,040 for possessing 1,638 cartons, 48 packets and 25 sticks of various types of cigarettes, and BND73,833 for a second charge of possessing 82 cartons and five packets of cigarettes. Nurfaiz faces 36 months imprisonment if he fails to pay the first fine, and 17 months imprisonment if he fails to pay the second.
