Customs seizes RM500,000 car.

(From New Straits Times (Malaysia))

KUCHING: The Customs Department seized a BMW M3 Coupe valued at half a million ringgit, believed to have been smuggled in from Kalimantan.

Duties on the luxury car amounting to RM318,068.36 were not paid.

Customs deputy Director-General (Prevention) Datuk Mohamed Khalid Yusuf said the car was seized on Jan 16. "We are trying to track down the owner because the car was not registered with the Road Transport Department," he said, adding his department was working with the police to …