In a collective account today, Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA), Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority (AVA) and Health Sciences Authority (HSA) said the boxes were buried in a alcove at the appropriate ancillary of the bus, apprenticed by a abandoned 30-year-old man.
Other alive birds begin were Red-whiskered Bulbuls, White-rumped Shamas and Spotted Doves.
The authorities said the Fischer's Lovebird is a adequate breed beneath the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Breed of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
The man, alive birds and bus were handed over to AVA for investigations.
Under the Endangered Breed (Import and Export) Act, offenders can be fined up to S$50,000 (S$1=RM2.96) per appointed breed (not beyond a best accumulated of S$500,000) and/or imprisonment of up to two years aloft conviction.
From the aforementioned bus, the authorities additionally begin three atramentous bundles in red artificial bags, which were after begin to accommodate 4,500 sachets of chewing tobacco, at the baggage compartment.
The acceptation and auction of chewing tobacco is banned in Singapore.
The sachets of chewing tobacco were referred to HSA for investigation, said the statement.
Any being who is bedevilled of importing chewing tobacco is accountable to a accomplished of up to S$10,000, or imprisonment of up to 6 months or both for the aboriginal offence, and to a accomplished of up to S$20,000, or imprisonment of up to 12 months or to both for the additional or consecutive offence.
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