The Road Transport Department (JPJ) is set to launch a crackdown on cloned car syndicates as the government is losing over RM100 million in tax revenue, The Star reports. One such method it plans to use to filter out these illegal vehicles, is through embedded smartcode radio frequency identification (RFID) tags in road tax stickers.
Director-general of JPJ, Datuk Seri Ismail Ahmad said, “the government is losing millions in tax revenue.” He added “we are looking at implementing a smartcode tag for all vehicles to prevent car cloning.” Another way to weed out vehicles include the introduction of the Vehicle Entry Permit (VEP) system, now said to be by the middle of this year. With the VEP, foreign cars that are above five years old, can be tracked down if taxes have not been paid.
Ismail said that there were still 2,000 to 3,000 cloned cars on the road. “We aim to go after them,” he declared. He said that cloned car syndicates were currently under pressure, prompting them to shift their operations about. Last year alone, a total of 506 cloned cars have been seized by the JPJ, with tax revenue losses amounting to approximately RM30 million.
Cloned cars are usually vehicles from Singapore, but they appear as a Malaysian-registered vehicle, using identical number plates taken from a similar legitimately-registered model. Dealers of cloned cars assure buyers that the vehicles come with cloned documents and cloned road tax discs which costs somewhere between RM800 and RM1,000 depending on the model of the car in question.
The process involves changing the engine, chassis number and providing cloned road tax discs and car grants with details input into JPJ’s system. A total of 1,500 car grants had been issued without authorisation. Cloned vehicles could be sold as cheap as RM5,000 for a Honda Jazz and RM25,000 for a Toyota Vellfire.
Last May, the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission arrested four suspects (two were JPJ officers in Negeri Sembilan), when it was discovered that more than 10,000 road tax discs were smuggled out of the state for the past two years.
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solve the roadtax sticker won’t stick first..
just renewed my roadtax and stick on my windscreen, less then 8 hours already came off..
All this drama by JPJ. JPJ themselves know that the big culprits are their own officers. This, as with all scandals, is an inside job.
Ismail Ahmad is pretending Government is losing so much of money and all that but he himself knows, the JPJ are hand in had with the syndicate and sharing profits. Of course its not the whole JPJ involved, but director general knows who the inside men are.
Such scandals can never happen unless you get inside help. Datuk first needs to clean up whis officers. They are dirty like hell. Not only every road block they are asking money, now they have gone into bigger scale doing cloning.
This has been going on for 20 years. The JPJ themselves sell road tax to all those Bentley owners supposed to pay RM18k per annum but special printed free road tax to all the Bentley owners are done inside the JPJ using fake road tax.
My advice to JPJ, clean up your act. Not only your officers on the road are so corrupted, now, you are on a bigger scale cheating Malaysians.
These people has been wanting to implement RFID since the last decade. Perfect “business model” to make easy money. Despite technological limitation and flaws in the plan, they still reluctant to abort the plan. Taking every opportunity to introduce this model of money making.
The excuses used to be cracking down stolen vehicle and unpaid summons and now clone vehicle.
And RFID can’t be cloned?
:)
If they are serious with it, they can start from within JPJ to track the culprits down.
Yes. its very hard to clone. The RFID ID will be save in system
Can someone enlighten me on what cloned cars are? Are these cars not registered or are they literally cloned, as in 3rd part made body and engine?.
these are illegal cars brought in from SG. No tax paid, runners get fake roadtax/numberplate for the new owners in Msia. Its called cloned because the roadtax/numberplate is from a legal car in malaysia.
You have one BMW 5 series. Bought 400k 10 yrs ago.
Now I buy one BMW 5 series from Singapore at 15k. 10 yrs old, supposed to be scrapped.
But Malaysia doesn’t recognise used imports from Singapore. Only Japan and UK.
So the easiest way for me to legalise my BMW is using same reg number like yours.
Just reprint road tax and reg card.
Just like cloning human, 2 look alike cars having the same number plate, one is real, the other is fake, loh….
The cloned cars currently used real road tax illegally printed via JPJ. What diffrence will RFID in new road tax accomplish? The new road tax will just be sold via back door to these owners. BUT a new crony will be appointed to print the RFID roadtax…semua dapat juta juta contract, beli lambo baru