{"id":26023,"date":"2026-01-05T20:03:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T12:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=26023"},"modified":"2026-01-05T20:03:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T12:03:34","slug":"singapore-resident-turns-themselves-in-after-using-subsidised-ron95-petrol-in-kulai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=26023","title":{"rendered":"Singapore resident turns themselves in after using subsidised RON95 petrol in Kulai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"story-body\">\n                <!-- Content data --><\/p>\n<p>KULAI: The man who went viral for allegedly refuelling a Singapore-registered car with subsidised RON95 petrol has come forward, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Kulai OCPD Asst Comm Tan Seng Lee said that the 63-year-old man and his 67-year-old wife arrived at the Kulai police headquarters to assist with the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe investigation paper is still being processed and will be referred to the Deputy Public Prosecutor as soon as possible for further instructions,\u201d he said on Monday (Jan 5).<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday (Jan 4), police said the suspect, identified as a Singapore permanent resident, was being investigated under Section 108(3)(e) of the Road Transport Act 1987 for allegedly exhibiting an altered or tampered vehicle registration number.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday (Jan 3), a one-minute video showed a man refuelling a vehicle with partially obscured registration plates using subsidised RON95 fuel intended only for Malaysia-registered vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, the first and last letters of the car\u2019s registration number appeared to have been covered.<\/p>\n<p>The voice of an unidentified individual, believed to be the person recording the video, can also be heard asking the suspect whether he was Malaysian; the man replied that he was.<\/p>\n<p>Police confirmed that the man allegedly covered the registration number of his Singapore-registered vehicle to pump RON95 petrol at a petrol station in Kulai.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/nation\/2026\/01\/05\/singapore-resident-turns-themselves-in-after-using-subsidised-ron95-petrol-in-kulai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KULAI: The man who went viral for allegedly refuelling a Singapore-registered car with subsidised RON95 petrol has come forward, police said. Kulai OCPD Asst Comm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}