JOHOR BARU: Police here want to work closely with their Singaporean counterparts to prevent the selling of cloned or scrapped vehicles from the republic.
State police chief Comm Datuk Wan Ahmad Najmuddin Mohd said they would pay a courtesy call on Singapore police soon to discuss the matter.
“We believe that the problem of cloned cars from Singapore is quite rampant, especially in Johor,” he said at a press conference yesterday.
He said police had detained three Malaysians driving Singapore-cloned cars in the state in the past three days.
Comm Wan Ahmad said a 33-year-old man was in front of a cafe at the 9km mark of Segamat-Kuantan highway.
Initial investigations showed that his Audi A3 was a scrapped car brought from Singapore bearing a false licence plate.
“We also found a pistol and a rifle with 37 bullets inside the car boot,” he said.
Comm Wan Ahmad said the other two cloned cars were seized during a joint road block operation by police traffic and the Road Transport Department. Both vehicles carried false licence plates.
He said he’d urge his counterparts to provide a list of cars from the republic which were not allowed on Singapore roads.
The owners of such cars would drive their vehicles, which were supposed to be sent to the scrap yards, to Johor Baru but they would not return to the republic with the vehicles, said Comm Wan Ahmad.
He said the three cloned cars seized in Johor so far might just be the tip of the iceberg.
Comm Wan Ahmad said the owners of the cloned cars were not only taking a risk themselves but also putting other road users in danger as they were not covered by insurance.
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