The Road Transport Department (JPJ) is set to devise a new system to stop syndicates selling cloned cars from June 1, according to a report by The Sun.
The new system, set to be integrated within the existing vehicle insurance system, is one of the ways to check on the total loss of vehicles that are cloned and sold on, according to JPJ director-general Datuk Seri Ismail Ahmad.
“The syndicate uses the records of these vehicles to be cloned. It is difficult to keep track on such vehicles as the syndicates use various kind of tactics including bringing (the vehicles) in through sea or containers,” the daily quoted him as saying.
It was reported recently that a syndicate has been luring people to buy cloned luxury cars online at prices three times lower than market value, and that these “good deals” have been ongoing for six months.
JPJ and the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) have seized 153 of the vehicles valued at RM13 million at various locations in Terengganu. Some of the cars were brought in illegally from Singapore and had fake road tax. Cloned cars also typically have forged documents, chassis and engine numbers.
According to The Sun, eight owners so far from Terengganu and Klang Valley have surrendered their cars after the department had asked such buyers to come forward.
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Hello. JPJ and the CLoned Syndicate are One organisation la. Get real. This is Malaysia. The Cloned Syndicate is probably running from the JPJ office itself.
We all know, JPJ is the most corrupt organisation in Malaysia. It is corrupted to the core. Everything there is money money money. You cannot get anything done in JPJ unless you give duit kopi.
This is the same with our Immigration. Globally we are one of the top in human trafficking. And you can guess who are the ones in Malaysia really selling children and women to human trafickking syndicates in Malaysia.
My advice to JPJ, pls lah. Try to clean up your organisation. Yes, buat lesen and renew road tax tak ada corruption but everything else, money money money!
Every single lorry driver can vouch that JPJ strret road blocks always insist on duit kopi
buat report la deyy macha..xde proof takkok je pun x guna.. ask the lorry drivers to step up la kalau berani..lu keyboard warrior bergaji ke??? puii bullshit
Prices hit 3 times lower than market value, that sound attempt and lure people as realize how greedy malaysia tax impose on it.
its ok…i drive G1M plate car in KL…no need pay import duties
there are 2 ways of when a car can be written off.
1. The cost of repair is high and beyond economic repair (BER). such as engine and transmission broken, undercarriage broken but main chassis (monocoque remains intact with minor damage).
the car can look horribly damaged but most components like doors, bonnet, fenders, wheels & windscreen are actually non-welded parts and therefore is a case of plug n play type replacement.
in UK, this is known as category C (and D) type of write off. the vehicle can re-appear on the road.
2. this one involve more severe damage including roof, floorplan, pillars, wheelhouse and firewall panel which are all welded together to make the sekeleton of the car.
a totally burnt car is also in this category.
This type of damage is known as catgeory A (and B) write off and should never be allowed to re-appear on the road.
the authority will required the scrap to be crushed.
UK is a well developed country in various aspect of motoring regulations. not only in B&P, but also when it comes to emission standard, traffic control in London and down to the pattern of car registration number.
are u stupid? these cars come from sinagpore. cars cannot be driven in Singapore after 10 years thus they become worthless there, but its still valuable if can be used in Malaysia.
My Inspira convert to Lancer, is it considered clone?
Weird.. They collect huge excise duties, and some of that money will be used to combat the problem that starts from the huge excise duties.
What is clone car?? can any1 explained…sry noob here!
Btw, to stop all this problem, just sell the car without tax, so car price will come down significantly, so used car no more value..
It can be a Singapore car which is due for scrap, but brought into Malaysia. Using a similar number plate to another car of the same model and most likely same colour.
Or, a car which was declared total loss but was repaired using half cut. Again, number plate clone to another car.
these silly jpj boys……..again