The Kelantan road transport department (JPJ) has caught some Thai vans illegally running cross-border services by getting passengers to cross the border on foot before picking them up again on the Malaysian side, The New Straits Times reports.
“When applying for the (International Circulation Permit, or ICP) at the (Immigration, Customs, Quarantine and Security complex), drivers claim the private vehicle is only carrying the driver. Those on board are told to walk through the complex and are picked up later,” Kelantan JPJ director Mohd Misuari Abdullah said, adding that this violates the ICP’s conditions and that numerous cases have been detected.
The department inspected 67 Thai vans from January 16-23 and acted against 42 of them for various offences including operating without an ICP, failing to display the permit, and technical violations such as tinted windows.
“Ops Khas Tunggak focuses on foreign vehicles, particularly from Thailand. We conducted intelligence work and found their entry has been active over the past few days,” said Misuari. Last year, the department acted against 277 Thai vehicles during the same operation in Kelantan, collecting RM99,100 in fines.
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