Star Motoring
PETALING JAYA: College and secondary students, lured by easy money, are being used by syndicates to steal cars. The students are paid between RM300 and RM500 for every car stolen and some can even earn up to RM8,000 a month. A source, who runs a car workshop, said the students were responsible for tailing vehicles after the car keys were duplicated by operators of workshops, car wash, valet parking and towing services cooperating with the syndicates. He said only the bolder ones were asked to steal the cars.
In most cases, they were given about an hour to drive the vehicles straight to the port where containers were waiting to ship them overseas. A batch of shipment normally carries six cars and they can ship off 30 to 50 cars a month. The youngsters also drive the vehicles to designated workshops where the parts are disassembled immediately. “It is not difficult to penetrate into schools and colleges. The amount is attractive to the youngsters, who are either from poor families or are hooked on a lavish urban lifestyle,” he said, according to a Star Metro report.
