New scandal related to Approved Permits! The Royal Customs Department has uncovered 105 luxury cars worth nearly RM50 million which were imported using “recycled” APs while doing a routing inspection of 142 vehicles at the department’s AP inspection centre at Petaling Jaya.
Sources say that 37 Aps with different serial numbers were used multiple times to bring in the cars. These cars were mainly Toyota, Mercedes Benz and BMW makes, but also included cars like the Mini Cooper, Nissan Skyline, and Mitsubishi Lancer.
The cars have not been seized yet. Similiar irregularities have also been noticed before, but usually by the time it is noticed, the cars have already been sent off to the importers. The Customs have alerted the Road Transport Department not to allow these cars to be registered.
If you are buying a reconditioned or imported vehicle via grey importers, be careful. You might not be able to register your vehicle if it is imported in a dodgy manner. It’s good that UMW might be bringing in popular Toyota CBUs (Harrier, Wish, etc) this year so we can purchase them through an official channel.
Source: The Star
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why ap issues so many problem ah? just abolish the AP and let Importers hv free reign to import cars to sell to us la.
why they wanna control using this stupid AP?
nexttime if there is problems in AP for sugar or other food, then how? no need to eat those foods?
who gona fund those 'poor' ppl w/o APs
who gona fund those 'big pocket guy' w/o plotong?
:P
I am more concerned about those innocent car buyers. What will happen to them? Will the custom department go after them for the extra tax payable or will they go after the importer instead? And what happens when the guilty importer had closed shop?
Can the car buyers turn the table around and say the custom department should be paying the extra tax payable simply because they failed in their job in the 1st place.
Any lawyers around?
Wahlaueh…
This AP problems will not end because it worth extreme big $$$… i think the majority AP owners still secure their AP tickets… Richman who buy the exortic cars or luxury car will take the risk of unable to register the vehicle… for poor people like me… only afford for 'plotong'… with low quality but extreme easy to register :P
if no AP every thing is easy . give a healthy competitions to do business.
some been protected is enough till by now.
other wise can we say who been protect-ted is abnormal person? o this government is abnormal!.
by the way we all r Malaysians , protect this n that is all our Malaysians n nationality money to play off.
why dont our government solve internal problem n go out there n find other business that not burdening our Malaysian.
this TEX that TEX is that like father is our government looking money from there son is us, do u think this father is good?.
Why that minister not fired ??? curious!
why?, cause all of them r the same , eating n eating for there own minority who feel good only.
at the end our Malaysians who burden.