Two Luxury Vehicles Seized In Songkhla

[Lite Beer]

Two luxury vehicles seized in Songkhla

SONGKHLA, Sept 13 - Two luxury vehicles were seized at the Sadao border checkpoint in the southern province of Songkhla bordering Malaysia, according to a senior official.

Prayuth Maneechote, director of Customs Office Region 4, said on Thursday that a Lamborghini Gallardo LP 550 and a Nissan GT-R CBA-R35 are valued together at Bt30 million.

The two vehicles were found to have falsely registered documents for smuggling into Thailand for sale.

Legal action has been taken against Pern Kok Heng and Chew Eng Tian, both Malaysian nationals. They however rejected the charges, saying they were travelling to Phuket.

Mr Prayuth said that smugglers were attempting to deliver the cars to customers in Bangkok by road after the authority’s stringent checks on smuggling goods by ship. (MCOT online news)

-- TNA 2012-09-13

[Tatsujin]

dam_n! The delivery date is gonna be pushed back now for my 2 new babies

[Bagwan]

Two Government officials are going to be seriously pi$$ed off.

[harrry]

So customs did their job. Congratulations.

[moe666]

Two Government officials are going to be seriously pi$$ed off.

Maybe it is a replacement for a car envolved in a hit and run

[Garry]

Obviously someone doesn't want to pay that ridiculous luxury car import duty. A Gallado & GTR. Nice cars indeed.

Edited September 13, 2012 by Garry

[Skywalker69]

dam_n! The delivery date is gonna be pushed back now for my 2 new babies

Sh*t happens mate.

[Skywalker69]

Obviously someone doesn't want to pay that ridiculous luxury car import duty. A Gallado & GTR. Nice cars indeed.

Bet it´s not a "Rice farmer" that bought the cars.

[Thaiwine]

It struck me that these two Malasian guys were on holiday when they are accused of illegally importing cars,

"hmm sorry guys we will have to confiscate them"

[Basil B]

Two Government officials are going to be seriously pi$$ed off.

And two others a giong to get new company cars...

[Garry]

Obviously someone doesn't want to pay that ridiculous luxury car import duty. A Gallado & GTR. Nice cars indeed.

Bet it´s not a "Rice farmer" that bought the cars.

Please don't quote me with your prejudices. Obviously the cars are high end and the well healed will have to pay for them.

[asiawatcher]

Malaysia is not cheap for cars, so why send them from Malaysia to Thailand for resale - if in fact they can prove that case. This story is certainly not complete. Similarly the cost of the cars are also expensive down there - so unless they are stolen, and being fenced here - which they would still have to prove - all they have are two cars with wrongful papers.

[webfact]

Police seize smuggled cars

The Nation

SONGKHLA: -- Customs Region 4 Director Prayut Maneechote yesterday announced the seizure of two luxury sports cars worth Bt30 million in Songkhla's Sadao district.

The Lamborghini Gallardo LP550 and the Nissan GT R CD-R 35 car were seized and their Malaysian drivers Pern Kok Heng and Chew Eng Pian were arrested at Kanchanawanich Road in Ban Dan Nok. Officials found that the car registration papers had been forged to smuggle them into Thailand for sale later.

-- The Nation 2012-09-14

[kartman]

Presumably they had come into Malaysia without paying taxes hence the forged papers, drivers weren't expecting Sadeo to call Malaysian Customs to verify docs.

[thequietman]

So customs did their job. Congratulations.

The cars will sit there for a while. The intentioned owners will contact customs, a fee will be discussed and the cars will be released.

This is just business

[Ferangled]

In countries where the Lambo doesn't attract ridiculous taxation a 2012 model sells for around £160,000... c.8 million baht.

Similarly the Nissan GTR 2012 sells for around $90,000... c.3 million baht.

How do they reach a combined value of 30 million?

[Bagwan]

Two Government officials are going to be seriously pi$$ed off.

And two others a giong to get new company cars...

A comment worthy of the other Basil, you know, the one married to the horrendous Sybil.

[sunshine51]

For those interested...

There is a huge car theft ring in Malaysia that operates kinda like this;

Go to dealer, pay downpayment, get insurance & drive car away.

Get car into Thailand or into Singapore (FFT to Indonesia) say on

a weekend holiday and deliver it to "contacts" in either country

then scream that the car was stolen and collect insurance money.

Secondly...outrightly steal luxury vehicle then forge papers/ plates

and pay bribe money to cops & border officials and sell vehicle to

"contacts" in either country. In a nutshell that's all there is to it.

The money earned is huge in either case if one doesn't get caught.

Edited September 14, 2012 by sunshine51