The Straits TimesThe director of a wholesale trading firm who would have been fined for food-related offences must now spend time behind bars after she threatened to falsely accuse a Singapore Food Agency officer handling her case of molesting her.
Her offences came to light in July 2020, when Immigration and Checkpoints Authority officers at the Pasir Panjang Scanning Station, Ports Command, detected anomalies in the scanned images of a 40-foot container from China. During the interview, a check was conducted on her mobile phone and incriminating communications were detected.
“The accused threatened the that if he refused to hand over the statement to her, she would shout ‘molest’.” Separately, in their joint statement, the three agencies said that Wang had illegally imported around 36kg of food products, including sausages, beef jerky and salted duck eggs. The items were seized.As illegally imported food products are from unknown sources and can pose a food safety risk, they can be imported only by licensed importers and every consignment must be declared and accompanied with a valid import permit, the agencies said.