Three plead guilty to tax fraud of luxury car purchases

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Three men pleaded guilty to five charges for faking documents to commit tax fraud involving luxury car purchases that caused the country to lose RM33mil in taxes.  Mohd Noh Hussain, Mohd Khairul Suberi and Fairul Ismazi Ishak pleaded guilty to the charges at the Alor Setar Sessions Court on Monday.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00 Three men pleaded guilty to five charges of faking documents to commit tax fraud involving

00:08 luxury car purchases that caused the country to lose 33 million ringgit in taxes.

00:14 Mohamed Noh Hussein, Mohamed Kairul Subri and Fairul Ismazi Ishak pleaded guilty to

00:19 the charges at the Alor Star Sessions Court on Monday.

00:23 Mohamed Noh was charged for using a fake document at the Langkawi Customs Office and for forging

00:28 a customs form with intention to deceive Langkawi Customs officers.

00:33 Mohamed Kairul was charged for using faked customs forms for import shipments at the

00:37 Langkawi Customs Office and for forging another customs form for import shipments with intention

00:43 to deceive Langkawi Customs Office.

00:46 The third accused, Fairul, was charged with faking a customs form for import shipment

00:51 at the same location.

00:53 Lawyer Mohamed Hakim Hamran, who represented all of the accused, pressed for a minimum

00:58 sentence saying his client's guilty plea had saved the court's time from a lengthy trial.

01:04 Kwa Chien Chien, who also represented the three accused, said his client's has been

01:08 cooperative with MACC investigators and voluntarily attended the court proceedings.

01:14 Judge Rohatul Akmar Abdullah said she would only meet out the sentences on Tuesday.

01:19 She granted a bail of 20,000 ringgit for Mohamed Noh with one surety, 10,000 ringgit for Mohamed

01:26 Kairul with one surety, and 5,000 ringgit for Fairul with one surety.

01:31 It is learned that another three members of the syndicate are expected to be brought to

01:35 Alor Star Sessions Court to be charged on Tuesday.

01:39 It was earlier reported that graft investigators carried out a special operation after the

01:44 Auditor General's report 2022 highlighted shortages in Langkawi Customs Department's

01:49 duty collection between 2012 and 2021.

01:53 According to the report, there was a leakage of more than 72 million ringgit in duty collections,

01:59 involving 100 luxury cars of make such as Bentley, Rolls-Royce, Lamborghini, Ferrari

02:05 and Porsche.

02:07 Acting on the report, the MACC carried out a special operation codenamed "Ops Eagle."

02:13 In the operation, six members of the syndicate aged between 30 and 60 were caught on July

02:18 13 last year when they presented themselves at the MACC office to get their statements

02:23 recorded.

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