Drugs in fruit, fire extinguishers: Traffickers find new ways to evade detection

Police arrest two Singaporean men on charges of selling drugs to foreign pub-goers in October 2022. Packs of illicit drugs were found hidden in speaker cabinets in the suspects’ room. (Photo supplied/Wassayos Ngamkham)

SINGAPORE: Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, drug traffickers are increasingly attempting new ways to smuggle drugs into Singapore, the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) said.

These were in part to work around the coronavirus situation and restrictions, as well as to evade detection, Sng Chern Hong, CNB's deputy director of policy and administration, told CNA on Monday.