Rings smuggling cars via Thailand to Asean countries

‘Hot’ wheels: Some of the luxury cars which were recovered by the Thai police. (Inset) Wan Ahmad Najmuddin and Gen Witaya looking at the vehicles which were handed over to the Malaysian police.

BANGKOK: Malaysian car-jacking syndicates have been using Thailand as a transit point to smuggle stolen vehicles into other regional countries such as Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.

According to Bukit Aman CID director Datuk Seri Wan Ahmad Najmuddin Mohd, the Royal Thai Police (RTP) had since 2015 recovered more than 100 stolen Malaysian vehicles in the kingdom and handed them over to their Malaysian counterparts.