The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) says that it is actively pursuing syndicates involved in cloned vehicles. Its deputy chief commissioner of operations, Datuk Seri Mohd Shukri Abdul said that the commission has been cooperating closely with the Road Transport Department (JPJ) after cloned vehicles were first discovered two years ago, The Star reports.
“We opened 34 investigation papers between 2012 and 2015, as we suspected there were elements of corruption in the cloned vehicle syndicates,” the deputy commissioner said. He disclosed that 21 people have since been arrested, while 56 cloned cars have been seized.
Under Section 18 of the MACC Act 2009 and the Penal Code, those involved or in possession of cloned vehicles can be investigated for falsifying documents. Upon conviction, individuals can be jailed for not less than 20 years, along with a fine.
Meanwhile, the Malaysian Automotive Association (MAA) has warned against buying these cloned cars, stating that it was against the law. “If it is too good to be true, it probably is,” said MAA president Datuk Aishah Ahmad. She added that said cars would face issues when it comes to the renewing road tax and obtaining insurance coverage.
On that note, proposals by the JPJ to implement a vehicle ownership certificate system to replace the current registration card system from April 1, 2016, was well-received by the MAA. “The new system will allow car owners to check online on vehicle details. This will make it difficult for cars to be cloned,” she explained.
As for moves to tackle the issue, an embedded smartcode radio frequency identification tag in road tax stickers is being mulled by the JPJ to weed out cloned cars. Another method that is being explored is that of utilising the Vehicle Entry Permit, which is reportedly due be introduced by the middle of 2016. Similarly, the JPJ has set up a special 25-member squad that can spot these vehicles by just looking at them.
Cloned cars are usually foreign vehicles that appear as Malaysian-registered vehicles using identical number plates taken from a similar legitimately-registered model. Approximately 2,000 to 3,000 cloned cars are still on the road, and it is said the government is losing over RM100 million in tax revenue due to this.
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When will Rakyat and “Real” anti corruption team goes to rackets against Cronies???
Hello Shuk, sampai hari ini your bola kecut and Najib is still running lose. 1 Year already passed and nothing happen to him.
1MDB also, your bola kecut.
Kes Lembu Sharizat also your bola kecut.
How to bilip you about this cloning?
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All about the last sentence.
All this drama by JPJ and MACC. MACC and JPJ themselves know that the big culprits are their own officers. This, as with all scandals, is an inside job.
JPJ Director General Ismail Ahmad is pretending Government is losing so much of money and all that but he himself knows, the JPJ are hand in hand with the syndicate and sharing profits. Of course its not the whole JPJ involved, but director general knows who the inside men are. MACC also knows. But they will never touch them.
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.
My advice to MACC, go catch your big boss. He sapu RM2.6 billion also, until now, MACC balls so takut. Taib sapu RM85 billion also, until now MACC balls shiver.
Open and blatant corruption MACC cannot handle, apa lagi JPJ?
After the last sentence, then only set up team ah? :-S
no need to look far, MACC. I give you a clue: Just look at PM office at Putrajaya.
Fight corruption, rackets konon…..