Company director to be jailed 42 weeks for false declarations on unexported liquor in Singapore


Liquor found at the two units of the self-storage facility. - Photos: Singapore Customs

SINGAPORE: A man is to serve 42 weeks in jail over false declarations about almost 20,000 bottles of liquor that were supposed to be exported, but were found in a storage facility with taxes unpaid.

Alfred James Martin Galistan, 59, was found guilty by the State Courts of instructing a logistics service provider to declare the export of liquor from a licensed warehouse as sea stores - goods meant for use by seamen and passengers on ships outside Singapore waters.

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