Seet Poh Jing, a former property sales agent with Huttons Asia, was sentenced to the mandatory death penalty for trafficking cannabis in Singapore.[1][2] In reasons issued on 2 April 2024, Justice See Kee Oon of the Appellate Division convicted him on one charge of trafficking no less than 4,509.2 grams of cannabis mixture.[1][2]
Central Narcotics Bureau officers arrested Seet, then 28, on 28 June 2018 after he led them to a car holding five blocks of vegetable matter that proved to be cannabis mixture he called weed.[1][2] Forensic examination of two of his mobile phones found mass-sent messages advertising the drug.[1][2]
Seet claimed the cannabis was for research and development toward a cannabidiol business, and relied on a psychiatric report of a drug-induced hypomanic episode behind grandiose plans for a cannabis venture.[1][2] The judge rejected both, calling the research claim a concocted afterthought at odds with Seet’s post-arrest statements, which spoke of helping friends and set out a weed pricing strategy without mentioning research.[1][2]
