Published: 2:13pm, 6 Aug 2025Updated: 2:42pm, 6 Aug 2025
A Singapore-registered car owner caught on camera filling up a plastic container with subsidised petrol in Malaysia has prompted an investigation by Malaysian authorities.
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The driver of the Mini Cooper with Singapore number plates was spotted at the Caltex Nusa Sentral station in Johor state on Sunday, filling up his car with RON 95-grade petrol and pumping it into a container for tapau, a colloquial term meaning a takeaway, according to a social media post by SG Road Vigilante.
RON 95 is a subsidised grade of petrol available for sale only to Malaysian-registered vehicles. It costs 2.05 ringgit (48 US cents) per litre (1⁄4 gallon), which is about five times less than the price of similar-grade fuel in Singapore.
Online users derided the driver seen in the footage for being a cheapskate.
“As a Singaporean, I really feel totally embarrassed by this stupid [fellow] who can afford a Mini Cooper and yet pump RON 95,” one user wrote.
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Others tagged the official social media pages of the police on both sides of the causeway, as well as Singapore’s Immigration and Checkpoints Authority in their comments.
On Monday, the Ministry of Domestic Trade and Cost of Living (KPDN) Johor confirmed it had launched an investigation.