Following reports that the government could write-off 1.6 million pending Automated Enforcement System (AES) court cases and fines of around half a billion ringgit since September 2012, Transport Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai has denied that a decision has been made. The Cabinet will decide on the matter, The Sun reports.
“We will announce it in due time after the Cabinet makes a decision. This will also go together with the launching of the next phase of AES,” Liow said after an official tour of the VTAR Institute yesterday.
He expressed hope that the AES issue could be resolved soon, and said that electronic enforcement is an effective measure to reduce road crashes and fatalities. “AES has been proven to get people to reduce speeding at blackspots and complying with traffic light intersections. So this is the way forward,” Liow said.
Earlier this week, The Sun reported that the government is prepared to quash “cold storage” cases during the pilot stage in order to move on to the second phase. The paper’s sources said that the AES pilot stage is plagued by a legal technical snag arising from the first stage of the evidence gathering process that was not done by enforcement officers.
The frozen court cases are impeding the execution of the second phase of AES at 350 locations, scheduled to start in the first quarter of 2016. This time, it will be conducted by agencies under the Transport Ministry, the report stated.
Of the 1.91 million AES summonses issued from September 2012 to April 30 this year, only 264,750 compounds amounting to RM76,647,750 have been paid. For those with a pending AES case, the sighs of relief will have to be put on hold.
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Such a corrupted company. Just 2 small Sdn Bhd making so much of money.
In a study done, these 2 small Sdn Bhd, will be earning a clean profit of over RM10 billion each if it is assumed a modest 10% of the cars on the road are saman in a year. This is just a small modest estimate and this is after the proft sharing with LHDN and PDRM.
these 2 small companies are projected to earn over RM10 billion each. this is far more than Malaysia’s largest listed company on the Bursa Malaysia, Sime Darby who earns lesser.
Not only that, these two small comanies hantam our money puas puas. When building the cameras, they charged the Government RM1 million per camera.
A far advanced DSLR camera is only RM2000 each….how can this camera cost RM1 million
Who owns this two small Sdn Bhd??
I think the cost to install is negligible. Even if it’s overpriced at RM1 million for each unit, they got their share already. Why do government agencies need to profit sharing with them anyway? Whose relatives is it? They act like they own Malaysian Government.
tetttt!!
wrong.
previously, two companies are operating the AES system, whereby they will provide from installation, maintenance up to providing the information and picture to JPJ for summons issuance. Government did not pay any money for the system at all. every summons issuance, the company who provide the data will earn their share. I do no know where you get your data but the starting cost for the system is quite huge and currently both company at loosing since government has pull out AES from the company and now they are under the care of AES Solution Sdn. Bhd. and whole system has return to PDRM for summons issuance and warrant.
AES system has been in the pipeline since 1998 and mulling over introduction ever since.
AES camera is not the same as DSLR.. is like comparing a Viva to Lamborghini, both is car but different type of car due to engine, braking, design, label etc.
tq
Don’t know why the majority cannot see how the ir own Government is screwing them up
Yeah, shock of the century.
out of that amount , cant u just hire couple of hundred officers to go after the offenders , everybody win…but corruption is sooooooo rooted , they just dont freakin bother , so can we the public , include the cost of those AES to the 1MBD as a total amount “missing”??
The question is why charge RM300 for such an offence? Even the traffic police do not charge so much. This is camera-light robbery!!!