8 luxury cars seized so far
Play
Thailand's most updated English news website, newspaper english, breaking news : The Nation
Department of Special Investigation (DSI) on Monday reported that only eight vehicles were seized by the authorities over suspicion of faulty claim of car re-assembling in order to avoid tax, while the remaining 228 cars were still being scrutinised by the Customs Department.
The DSI was expecting as many as 548 luxurious cars to be handed in voluntarily for checking, but so far only 236 have been submitted. Tarit said the Customs Department should be able to come up with a result in on the car checks in November.
Of the 199 cars called in for checking, only 102 had been submitted and the DSI began checking on them from October 2. Tarit said the authorities hoped to check on another 6,547 cars from January onwards.
