Two cases within a week involving foreign-registered cars receiving subsidised RON95 fuel have led to calls for Malaysia’s government to go after the vehicle owners as well rather than just the petrol station operators.
The common view was that it was unfair for the operators to be the only party penalised while the vehicle owners were let off the hook.
“Since there are no penalties, these culprits will try their luck,” said a cashier at a petrol station, who only wanted to be known as Lee.
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He said they were doing their best to prevent such attempts from drivers of foreign-registered vehicles.
“So far, I have not encountered such cases but I know of previous colleagues who had seen a Singaporean car owner trying to use his credit card to buy RON95 petrol,” Lee said.
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On January 3, a man was captured on video pumping subsidised RON95 fuel into a Singapore-registered car with its registration number partially covered with black tape.
When the clip went viral, the car owner, a permanent resident of Singapore, was reported to have surrendered at the Kulai district police headquarters in Johor to assist with investigations.