to a "laboratory" producing fake road tax discs and other documents where a computer and a printer used for forging vehicle documents, two fake discs and two driving licences were found. Also recovered were a Mitsubishi Pajero, a Toyota Hilux and a Proton Iswara that were reported stolen.
● Nov 19: Police recover several fake number plates, road tax stickers, a drill, machete and a machine to produce car keys after smashing a luxury vehicle theft syndicate in Subang Jaya. A man said to be the mastermind and his accomplice linked to 25 luxury car thefts were arrested. Police seized a Porsche, Audi, Chevrolet and a BMW from a warehouse in Pandamaran, Klang.
● Oct 9: A group of Toyota car thieves nicknamed Camry Moo Gang, believed to have stolen at least 30 cars valued at RM3 million, is crippled with the arrest of four gang members. Another was shot dead during the arrest, which also resulted in the recovery of two Toyota Camry, duplicate keys, fake number plates, several fake road tax discs and various tools, including key duplicating devices.
● Jan 6 - A gang of car-jacking robbers who held their victims at knife-point before driving off with their cars is
busted. They gang members were also rapists. Gang Jongos, which comprised five robbers and some 14 brokers and road tax disc forgers, operated in highend neighbourhoods in Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Kedah and Johor. Several stolen cars were also recovered.
● Jan 16 - Police seize a computer and printer following the arrest of a car thief believed to have produced fake
road tax. The 32-year-old pregnant woman was detained near Taman Damai Perdana in Kajang while being
driven in a stolen car. It was believed that the woman, whose accomplice was her husband, was a seller of fake road tax discs that were printed on ordinary A4 paper.
● Jan 18, 2008 - Thirteen forged road tax discs were among items seized by police who busted the notorious
Mamak gang and arrested four men aged between 19 and 50 on the North-South Highway. Other items seized from their stolen Toyota Wish were RM40,936, 13 mobile phones, two forged police authority cards, a pepper spray, a fake MyKad, a Customs Department security card and a Malaysia Airlines security card.
The men were remnants of the Mamak Gang that was blamed for more than 150 robberies, including cargo hijackings and warehouse break-ins, in the 1990s.
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