KUALA LUMPUR: The Road Transport Department (RTD) has detained nine illegal taxi touts at Southern Integrated Terminal (TBS) in Bandar Tasik Selatan r...
Kuala Lumpur RTD director Datuk Ismail Mohd Zawawi inspects the state-level RTD Day celebrations at the Kuala Lumpur RTD headquarters on April 17, 2019. — BernamaThe Road Transport Department has detained nine illegal taxi touts at Southern Integrated Terminal in Bandar Tasik Selatan recently.
“The suspects were charging customers at least RM30 in taxi fare,” he said. “The touts may face hefty fines of up to RM50,000 or imprisonment not more than five years or both under Section 205 of the Land Transport Act. Their modus operandi is by targetting bus passengers who have just arrived at the terminal.”
He said his enforcement personnel who conducted the operation also believe that touts usually operate between 4am and 7am. “The auctioning process will take place from 9am onwards. Most of the vehicles to be auctioned are cloned vehicles,” he said.
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