6 admit being part of group that stored nearly 58,000 vape items in Lentor, Sembawang 'warehouses'
Two syndicate leaders, and four subordinates, were on Sept 17 convicted for being part of a criminal group that stored nearly 58,000 vape products in two "warehouses" here.Nearly 17,000 of the products were vapes.One of the rented "warehouses" was a terraced house in Lentor, and the other was a condominium unit in the Canberra area in Sembawang.Wong Ee Wei, 29, and Kenneth Tan Hong Chang, 31, had admitted they were leaders in the group.Wong earned up to $280,000 while Tan earned around $36,000.They took instructions from a person known only as "Nobody", purportedly based in Malaysia.The leaders managed the "warehouses" and the group's finances. They also coordinated the deliveries of vape products from Malaysia as arranged by "Nobody".Three others — Ng Tai Lun, 27, Tiffany Lim Hui Peng, 30, and Adrian Chia Hong Qing, 33 — had acted as "local distributors" in the three-tiered syndicate.Those in this middle rung earned up to $8,000 monthly, and met "area distributors" to hand them the orders for the day and collect earnings.