06-09-2015, 01:50 AM
...environmental hazard...
Convicted of making curry puffs and selling them without a licence, Indonesian Robiah Lia Caniago spent five days in jail as she could not pay her $3,000 fine.
The National Environment Agency (NEA) has since revealed that she was part of a foreign syndicate mass-producing curry puffs from her Lengkok Bahru rental flat.
Curry puff woman was part of foreign syndicate
It had acted on public complaints against Madam Robiah and the flat's other occupants in June last year. According to an NEA spokesman, they "found a foreign syndicate mass-producing curry puffs".
He continued: "During the inspection, Madam Robiah and eight other people, all of whom are on social visit passes, were preparing curry puffs on the floor of the premises.
"When questioned, Madam Robiah claimed that they were all her relatives.
"NEA's records showed that four of them had been ticketed between four and 13 times previously for illegal hawking of curry puffs at various public places, such as MRT stations.
"This was also the second time within a month that the same premises was found to be used for unlicensed mass preparation of curry puffs.".....
"They suddenly popped up one day in an empty stall and started to make curry puffs. Not hundreds, but thousands of curry puffs," she tells The New Paper on Sunday.
For months, Madam Sa'adah watched them. More than 20 Indonesians produced the curry puffs by hand before passing them on to runners.
"One time, I saw a group of men 'dancing' together in the stall. When I went closer, they were actually kneading the dough with their feet," says Madam Sa'adah, who now runs her own restaurant....
