On 11 May 2017 at about 5.20am, Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) officers directed an arriving Malaysia-registered 40-footer truck, driven by a lone 31-year-old Malaysian man, for further checks at the Tuas Checkpoint. ICA officers had noticed anomalies in the scanned images of the truck which was conveying a consignment declared as storage cabinets. During the course of checks, ICA officers found 2,500 cartons of duty-unpaid cigarettes concealed among the consignment.