Heavenly Money Could Not Save The Old Smuggler
By Rol Ezam

Bandar Seri Begawan – It was the day when Chinese “heavenly money” turned out to be smuggled chicken parts.

Tham Tong Leong, a 66-year-old Permanent Resident was fined $500 or a month in jail yesterday when he pleaded guilty to smuggling six kilos of whole chicken, eight kilos of chicken wings and six kilos of chicken breast into Brunei.

The court heard the Custom Officers stopped the man at the Sungai Tujoh Control Post during a routine inspection.

The officers asked him if he had anything to declare, but he only replied that he only bought bundles of religious prayer paper money used for burning as sacrifice to the gods, said Hj Jamil Hj Tuah, the Customs Prosecutor.

However, when the Custom Officers made an inspection, they found the smuggled goods estimated at $61.76, inside the defendant’s car,

Hj Jamil said the defendant admitted the items were belonged to him, which he bought from Miri for his own consumption at a religious function, and some to be given to the old people house in Seria. -- Courtesy of Radio Television Brunei 

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