Over 50 travellers nabbed for failing to declare cash, pay taxes at Singapore checkpoints

[Straits Times] - 03/1/2025

Anyone found guilty of failing to declare cash exceeding $20,000 can be fined $50,000 and jailed up to 3 years.



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