Vegetable vendor turned liquor dealer fined
By Malai FadleyRizal 

A 39-year-old foreigner who started out selling fresh vegetables to workers at a housing construction site but eventually added contraband goods to his list, was imposed a total fine of $1,100 or five weeks imprisonment in default by the Magistrates Court yesterday. Samol Rasamee Kabkul pleaded guilty to selling five bottles of White Wine, and being in possession of the said five bottles of uncustomed White Wine, as well as being in possession of 22 packets of Perilly's cigarettes without the written Brunei health warning on its packages in October two years ago.

A team of CID personnel who had received information regarding the illegal operations stopped the car Samol was driving at Kg Masin near the said site on that day.

The officers searched inside the car and found the contraband items. The bootleg goods were seized and Samol was brought for investigations where he admitted to his misdeed.

The unpaid duty for the bottles of wines was $12.78 while the cigarettes were $35.20.

Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin