'Offenders should not be allowed to transfer ownership of vehicles to avoid forfeiture,' said the prosecutor of Lee Cheng Yan's case.
SINGAPORE: A court on Monday ordered a Maserati used by a man who injured a police officer by dragging him along the road with his vehicle to be forfeited to the state.His sister also urged the district court
According to the Road Traffic Act, if a repeat offender uses a vehicle he owns to commit certain offences, the public prosecutor can apply for the vehicle to be forfeited under certain circumstances and the court must order it. On Monday, both sides made a final plea to the court for their positions. Lee's sister said she was seeking closure to the case on Monday.
She said that as a taxpayer herself, she did not wish to waste any more resources unnecessarily through further adjournments. She said that"most people in Singapore won't be aware that life is extremely harsh" for such families. According to Section 43 of the Act, the only instances where a court is not to make a forfeiture order as sought by the prosecution are when the offender is not the vehicle owner, or if the offender used the vehicle without the consent of the real owner.
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