{"id":28719,"date":"2015-03-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/en\/categories\/law_order\/html\/2015\/03\/20150325_133413.shtml"},"modified":"2015-03-25T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T04:00:00","slug":"car-dealer-jailed-for-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2015\/03\/25\/car-dealer-jailed-for-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Car dealer jailed for fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/images\/home\/Categories_generic_icons\/Transport\/Road_03.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A car dealer company has been fined $60,000 and its director and a salesman have been jailed for six months each for supplying a second-hand light goods vehicle with a false trade description.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Acting on a complaint, customs officers investigated a car dealership in Yuen Long and found that it had sold a second-hand light goods vehicle, with an odometer reading of 55,000 kilometres, but the actual travel mileage was more than 280,000 kilometres.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The false travel mileage indicated on the vehicle was in contravention of the Trade Descriptions Ordinance.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Customs noted that travel mileage is one of the important factors in determining the market value of a second-hand vehicle. An understated mileage record may get a higher price for the vehicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/images\/home\/Categories_generic_icons\/Transport\/Road_03.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>A car dealer company has been fined $60,000 and its director and a salesman have been jailed for six months each for supplying a second-hand light goods vehicle with a false trade description.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Acting on a complaint, customs officers investigated a car dealership in Yuen Long and found that it had sold a second-hand light goods vehicle, with an odometer reading of 55,000 kilometres, but the actual travel mileage was more than 280,000 kilometres.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The false travel mileage indicated on the vehicle was in contravention of the Trade Descriptions Ordinance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Customs noted that travel mileage is one of the important factors in determining the market value of a second-hand vehicle. An understated mileage record may get a higher price for the vehicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chinese-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28720,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28719\/revisions\/28720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}