Six people have admitted to being part of a criminal syndicate that stored nearly 58,000 vape-related products in two rented properties in Singapore, with the group handling as many as 210 orders a day.
The six, including two syndicate leaders and four subordinates, were convicted on Sept 17 after pleading guilty to between two and nine charges each.
Nearly 17,000 of the items recovered were vaporisers. The remaining products included components used with vaping devices.
One of the group’s storage sites was a terrace house in Lentor, while the other was a condominium unit in the Canberra area of Sembawang.
Wong Ee Wei, 29, and Kenneth Tan Hong Chang, 31, were identified as leaders who ran the operation at different periods. Wong earned as much as S$280,000, while Tan made about S$36,000.
The two leaders took instructions from a person known as “Nobody”, who was reportedly based in Malaysia. They managed the storage sites, handled the group’s finances and coordinated deliveries of vape products from Malaysia.
Three other members — Ng Tai Lun, 27, Tiffany Lim Hui Peng, 30, and Adrian Chia Hong Qing, 33 — worked as local distributors. They earned up to S$8,000 a month and were responsible for passing daily orders to area distributors and collecting payments.
Tan Yi Tan, 36, was an area distributor and occupied the lowest level of the syndicate’s three-tier structure.
The court heard that the group operated from mid-2022 until October 2025. Area distributors delivered between 15 and 30 orders a day, while the syndicate as a whole could handle up to 210 orders of vaporisers and related components daily.
The operation was uncovered in October 2025, when authorities seized nearly 20,000 items from the Lentor property and more than 38,000 items from the Sembawang condominium.
The six offenders are due to be sentenced in October. A seventh member, Roy Tan Jun Jie, 34, was sentenced in August to 10 months’ jail and fined S$45,000 for his involvement in the syndicate.
The case highlights the scale of an organised vape distribution operation that used residential properties as storage locations and relied on a network of distributors to deliver products across Singapore.
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