SINGAPORE – A Malaysian woman who swopped two digits on her motorcycle licence plate to avoid Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) charges was sentenced to three weeks’ jail on May 10. Over four months in 2019 and 2020, Deivanai Karunanithi, 28, committed 68 ERP-related offences and five illegal parking offences with the altered plate. She failed to fit an in-vehicle unit on her motorcycle, which is compulsory for foreign-registered motorcycles. However, the ERP violations were not picked up as cameras captured the false rear licence plate. Deivanai is the first person to be convicted over the use of a foreign-registered vehicle affixed with false licence plates for purposes of evading detection of unlawful activity.   She pleaded guilty to 14 charges of failing to ensure that the identification mark of a vehicle was correctly exhibited at the back of her vehicle. She received a week’s jail sentence for each charge, with the court ordering three of the sentences to run consecutively. Read more