Embedded smartcode tags to stop the clones


Seeing double: Discovery of a cloned car of a similar make in Teluk Intan, Perak, recently

PETALING JAYA: A major nationwide crackdown is under way to weed out cloned car syndicates that are causing the Government to lose over RM100mil in tax revenue.

Besides enforcement, Road Transport Department (JPJ) director-general Datuk Seri Ismail Ahmad said there were also plans to use embedded smartcode radio frequency identification (RFID) tags in road tax discs to curb the pro­blem.

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