cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/50962591
The Singapore Customs is investigating a case where a man entering Singapore did not declare that he was in possession of assorted Pokemon trading cards worth more than $30,000 in total.
Singapore doesn’t fuck around, which my cousin found out the hard way when he had to leave Australia after a year of travelling/working and he just took the cheapest flight (pretty much the only one he could afford) out of the country, which went to Singapore. Of course he had no clue about Singapore and when he arrived without a visum, they took him into custody and interrogated him for over 12 hours. After they put him on a plane home (in Europe). In the end he rode the cheapest flight out of Australia all the way home, so that did work out for him.
You need a visa just to pass through Singapore on a connecting flight?
It wasn’t a connecting flight.
Thankfully your cousin didn’t have any drugs on him. Pretty much the death penalty.
Who determined that value?
Likely the grading on some which can be easily searched and market value for some.
To be fair, I wouldn’t have thought to declare Pokemon cards either… But OTOH, if he was carrying $30K in CASH…
It’s cardboard. It has the value of hard paper.
Edit: oh I see some graded ones in there
Pristine looking hard paper
PSA 10 hard paper
