The Kedah Customs Department have confiscated a total of 81 luxury vehicles, believed to have been smuggled into the nation, according to a New Straits Times report. The cars, believed to have been imported illegally from Thailand over the course of four months, are said to be worth a total of RM7.5 million with excise duty factored in.
Said smuggled vehicles were seized at a number of locations around the state including Durian Burung, Bukit Kayu Hitam and Langkawi. The list of smuggled luxury cars include a Porsche Boxster S, Lexus RX 300, MINI Cooper, Nissan Fairlady (350Z) and an unspecified Maserati and Jaguar.
A total of 15 suspects were arrested during the crackdown – one of them identified as a 50-year old government servant. “The suspects are believed to have smuggled in the vehicles from the neighbouring country and used fake registration number on them… they later sold the vehicles at cheaper price than the market price,” said department director, Abdul Latif Abdul Kadir.
The case now falls under Section 135 (1)(d) of the Customs Act 1967 – if convicted, the involved individual will be slapped with a fine of up to 10 times the seized item and/or a three-year prison sentence.
In an unrelated incident, the Road Transport Department (JPJ) and the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) have seized a total of 153 vehicles, worth RM13 million, during an operation in Terengganu. A number of the smuggled cars originated from Singapore, whereby forged paperwork were provided. This allowed for “cloned” vehicles to be sold at much lower prices in the market.
A new system to help curb the sales of cloned vehicles is said to be devised by the Road Transport Department come June 1. According to reports, said system will be integrated into the current vehicle insurance system, thereby allowing officials to keep track of vehicles that are written off and whether or not said vehicle had its documents cloned later on and sold.
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Bonus for the Customs boss and his family and friends. Whatever they confiscate always go to an UMNO crony or the custom’s boss relatives. Malaysia is the ONLY country in the world where there is no tender system for confiscated drugs, cars or houses.
So, Abdul Latiff family will have new luxury cars to drive, so will all the UMNO members.
Go to customs officer houses, you will see they use the latest LED TV, latest gadgets, latest Rolex and latest everything. All confiscated. The same as PDRM.
Customs always rampas….what happens to the barang??
We public never see it. From keretek gudang garam to Lamborghinis, we never see anything at all.
Drug barons and drug lords assets also we the public dont see at all
This is just a scape goat. So many smuggled cases. Half the time, Kastam officers the kingpin and mastermind behind the smuggling.
Once in a whle need to have scapegoat like this. Just to show, work is being done fairly
i wonder why u go to kastam officer house….? two-faced probably
Two generations old Honda Accord also luxury car?
Abolish excise duties and import duties. Let anyone import a car. Just charge GST 6% on imported cars.
Boom, problem solved.
Kastam lelong the vehicles twice sometimes thrice yearly. Last lelong was last february.
Dont have la Cybertrooper. Most luxury cars go to UMNO cronies la
Lelong for only old Accords. The good cars got no lelong at all. Directly masuk pocket
my uncle bought his e60 lci from a kastam lelong, held with public attendence. i think u can find announcement on the website..
How come no one wants to smuggle kimchis?
there is no such thing as smuggle , its bcos those gangsters pay their way to bring stolen things here and vice versa, is the border security totally absent that these things can be smuggled????
or out of thousands that are smuggled here , ‘catch’ abit of it n show they are doing their jobs and let the other hundreds pass by , it takes two to tango…
sorry for the total lack of trust in our enforcement , agencies , institutions , governemnts and all !!!!!
this is a sad revelation for me. i was wondering which one was the cybertrooper. then i realise i have been to kastam lelong many years ago. that mean the pakatan one is the cybertrooper above, talking rubbish. why do this? makes people confuse.
i voted for you and i hoping u were different. both sides now try to confuse people. very sick game.
i know how you feel. the more they talk, the more i see what’s wrong with them. even among my friends. haish, we the people have no good choice now.
go fly kite. dap dont need vote from ppl like u