The Kuala Lumpur road transport department (JPJ) has raised RM237,000 via its first public auction of the year, involving 124 seized vehicles (108 roadworthy, 16 unroadworthy and six cloned) and 85 bidders, Bernama reports.
“We successfully auctioned off all the listed vehicles, with the highest bid received being RM27,000 for a Mitsubishi Canter tipper truck, while the lowest bid was just RM200 for a scrap Modenas motorcycle,” KL JPJ director Hamidi Adam said, adding that the vehicles were seized for various offences including not having road tax and insurance.
“If the owners fail to claim the seized vehicles within three months, we will bring the case to court to initiate forfeiture proceedings before the vehicles are auctioned off,” he said, adding that such an auction is held twice a year. Each attending bidder was required to buy a RM100 booklet, so the total revenue was RM245,500.
“At present, our public auctions are conducted manually, but in the future, we are planning to introduce an online bidding system under the supervision of the JPJ headquarters,” said Hamidi.
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