Woman swops two digits on her motorcycle licence plate to avoid ERP charges, gets jail

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SINGAPORE – A Malaysian woman who swopped two digits on her motorcycle licence plate to avoid Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) charges was sentenced to three weeks’ jail on May 10. Over four months in 2019 and 2020, Deivanai Karunanithi, 28, committed 68 ERP-related offences and five illegal parking offences with the altered plate.

PHOTO: The Straits Times fileSINGAPORE – A Malaysian woman who swopped two digits on her motorcycle licence plate to avoid Electronic Road Pricing charges was sentenced to three weeks’ jail on May 10.

She failed to fit an in-vehicle unit on her motorcycle, which is compulsory for foreign-registered motorcycles.Deivanai is the first person to be convicted over the use of a foreign-registered vehicle affixed with false licence plates for purposes of evading detection of unlawful activity. She received a week’s jail sentence for each charge, with the court ordering three of the sentences to run consecutively.

The officer noted that the motorcycle displayed an identification mark of JTH1825 in the front, but JTH8125 in the rear, and found that only the first vehicle number was registered. The motorcycle was impounded for investigations.

 

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