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SINGAPORE – A man who was part of an organised criminal group<\/span><\/a> which stole deregistered cars and drove them across the Causeway was sentenced to 20 months\u2019 jail and fined $1,390 on Nov 11.<\/p>\n The group, made up of two Malaysians and a Singaporean, stole four vehicles from scrap companies in Singapore and re-sold them in Malaysia after replacing the registration plates.<\/p>\n Deregistered vehicles have had their official registration cancelled<\/span><\/a>, and no longer have valid road tax, insurance or a certificate of entitlement.<\/p>\n Abdullah Abbas Mohd Arba Ai, 31, pleaded guilty to four charges, including two counts of committing motor vehicle theft as part of an organised criminal group.<\/p>\n The Malaysian will also be banned from driving 18 months after his release from prison.<\/p>\n Abdullah was working as a Grab driver in Malaysia when he got to know Singaporean Terry Toh Kwang Huat, 53.<\/p>\n He introduced Toh to Mohd Mazuan Abdullah, 39, an agent who purchased deregistered vehicles from Singapore for resale in Malaysia.<\/p>\n Toh and Mazuan\u2019s cases are pending.<\/p>\n Both men planned to steal deregistered vehicles in Singapore by exploiting the scrap companies\u2019 practice of leaving the keys on the tyres of the cars.<\/p>\n After stealing them, they replaced the Singapore registration plates with Malaysian ones obtained by Mazuan, and drove the vehicles into Malaysia.<\/p>\n Between October and November 2025, Abdullah was promised about $155 for every vehicle he transported.<\/p>\n On Oct 23, 2025, Mazuan and Toh located a deregistered Toyota Camry parked at a scrap company\u2019s premises in Sungei Kadut.<\/p>\n The vehicle was worth about $4,500.<\/p>\n Toh found the car keys on the tyre and drove the car to a carpark in Woodlands with Mazuan.<\/p>\n There, Mazuan fixed an illegally-obtained Malaysian plate on the car, then returned to Malaysia.<\/p>\n Toh drove the vehicle to a car park near a mosque at Admiralty Road and left the key on the tyre.<\/p>\n Mazuan, who was in Malaysia, contacted Abdullah and told him to collect the car from the mosque and drive it into Malaysia.<\/p>\n Abdullah entered Singapore via Woodlands Checkpoint and collected the car.<\/p>\n Once he entered Malaysia, Abdullah parked the car at Mazuan\u2019s condominium. He received $155 for the job.<\/p>\n On Nov 24, 2025, Abdullah entered Singapore to drive a deregistered Toyota Altis across the Causeway.<\/p>\n He picked up the car from the same mosque, and received about $78 after parking the car at Mazuan\u2019s condominium in Malaysia.<\/p>\n Between Nov 19 and 23, 2025, Abdullah transported two other stolen vehicles from Singapore to Malaysia.<\/p>\n Mazuan sold two of the four stolen vehicles, earning RM 9,500 (S$2,990). All four vehicles were recovered in Malaysia.<\/p>\n Abdullah was arrested at Woodlands Checkpoint on Jan 20 when he tried to enter Singapore.<\/p>\n Deputy Public Prosecutor Santhiya Kulasakeran sought a sentence of 20 to 24 months\u2019 jail, 18 months\u2019 driving disqualification and a disgorgement fine of $1,390 for Abdullah.<\/p>\n She said he occupied a relatively low position within the group, as he was tasked to drive the stolen vehicles into Malaysia and hand them over to Mazuan.<\/p>\n She added: \u201cThat said, his culpability is not negligible. He had reasonable grounds to believe that the vehicles he was driving were stolen Singapore cars bearing false Malaysian plates.\u201d<\/p>\n There were 40 cases of deregistered vehicles being used on roads in 2022, and 39 in 2023. The figure jumped to 75 in 2024 and 245 in 2025.<\/p>\n In the first five months of 2026, LTA investigated 122 cases.<\/p>\n A fatal crash along Tampines Avenue 12<\/span><\/a> on Oct 29 which killed a motorcyclist and his pregnant wife involved a deregistered vehicle.<\/p>\n An islandwide crackdown in September found 91 deregistered vehicles, which were impounded.<\/p>\n In February, the Land Transport and Related Matters Bill was passed, raising the maximum penalties<\/span><\/a> for keeping or using unregistered or deregistered vehicles.<\/p>\n Previously, those caught keeping or using a deregistered vehicle could be fined up to $2,000 and jailed for up to three months for a first offence. Repeat offenders could be fined up to $5,000 and jailed for up to six months.<\/p>\n The punishment was increased to up to two years\u2019 jail and a $20,000 fine for first-time offenders, and double that for repeat offenders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE – A man who was part of an organised criminal group which stole deregistered cars and drove them across the Causeway was sentenced to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98924,"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-98923","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\/98923","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=98923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/98924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Road safety threat<\/h2>\n
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