The Road Transport Department (JPJ) has revealed that 95% of cloned cars detected through operations in Malaysia were smuggled in from Singapore, with most of them being designated scrap cars having lapsed their certificate of entitlement (COE).
In Singapore, cars have a lifespan of 10 years, after which they are considered unsafe or unfit to be driven in the republic. While owners have the option to renew the COE, it can often be costly and most prefer to deregister their vehicles instead.
“When that period is reached, all vehicles have to be disposed of. What they [syndicate] do is either bring in the vehicles into the country [Malaysia] first before finding a buyer, or find a buyer beforehand,” said the director of JPJ Selangor, Nazli Md Taib, in a report by Sinar Harian.
“This syndicate certainly has a network there [Singapore]. They have people over there as well as here. If not, they are not able to bring in cars from Singapore or even Thailand. These syndicates will then take photos of the cloned cars for the purpose of finding buyers,” he added.
Nazli also explained that when the cloned cars arrive in Malaysia, they are typically parked in condominiums or paid car parks until there is a buyer. When one is secured, the syndicate will then ask the buyer to come and pick up the vehicle themselves at a designated place. “Often the customers and seller never meet. All dealings are done online because the syndicate are always cautious. They also have members with specific roles like runners and others,” Nazli said.
He stressed that those looking to buy a used car need to be vigilant and make an effort to determine where the vehicle came from, its original owner and inspect the vehicle properly. Secondly, the used car must be inspected via Puspakom to ensure the deal follows the correct procedure.
“We ourselves must go to JPJ for fingerprint verification. Buyers and sellers must provide their thumbprints. If you buy and sell a car without a thumbprint verification, it’s not legal! We need to be careful and follow the process of exchanging ownership so as not to be deceived,” Nazli said.
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Biar papa asal bergaya. Buy a cheapo illegitimate car at RM40k to deceive people you own a luxury more than RM200k car. What’s wrong with our people.
Kereta besar tampak bergaya. Sedare mara posing bersama di hari raya.
I hope nobody comes here blaming JPJ bcoz this whole thing totally bypass JPJ process. This “registration” is all FAKE so none of JPJ are involved in this until the owner gets caught during police report or ownership transference.
100% of them cloned with help from inside JPJ.
If you read this:
https://paultan.org/2021/05/03/jpj-finds-there-are-vehicle-owners-who-conspired-with-car-cloning-syndicates/
No need JPJ insider “help”
I’m not saying that its not possible but you better come up with a solid evidence before you say something like that. Otherwise, you’ll just be accused with slander. I’m sure JPJ would want to find the culprit inside and take legal action but if there’s none, you’ll be the one in trouble.
this is what happen when you have overpriced used car market, together with nontransparent, cheated laden used car dealer
Thank Mahathir for overpriced cars.
It’s so easy to find these cars being sold online but JPJ/Police cant catch the culprits. Something smells fishy!
Most Singaporean rather scrap their car at 10years because they still getting a refund of 25-35% tax/duty called PARF.
remove the tax , cloned car will die off
Indeed
There is a simple way to solve this issue.
Buyer or seller need to sent the car to postpacom for inspection. If no major safety issues than just approved. After this custom just tax it 10-20% of the amount of the car, and give a tax paid certificate. Buyer/seller can easily do the documents to proceed the registration at JPJ with complete of this documents.
(In malaysia there is many car age are more than 10years. ) some more 20years above also have.