Sadly that’s the reality

This mean no solution, unless do surprise raid of tenant every month?

bingo

The scary part is you could go 1 week holiday,

Someone disguise as TNB contractor masuk your house and purposely "modify" your meter without your permission.

Then that person make report to TNB say you curi electric.

Then real TNB come check and say you 10 year curi electric and demand you pay RM100 000.

Eh? Got kes like this ka? So impossible,

Why tnb never sekat

No wonder TNB engineer so high pay.

Politicians often take sides with the corporations and the elites who owns the establishments.

That is why the entire world is rigged from top down at least to protect the ones with interests.

This is like if you parked your car in someone's car park owned privately but your car got stolen. Instead of blaming the theft, the owner of the car park gets prosecuted instead of the theft?

Like they say the theft tapped on the wire branch before going through the electric meter, should the owner of the property whose account under the meter is the one guilty?

What is the electricity is tapped at the main trunk wire before the branching into individual homes? Will TNB still pick scapegoats to blame?

Yes the smart meters these days can be read daily remotely. If the amount accumulates beyond the deposit credit limit threshold, TNB should already be alarmed.

But you see the problem here lies is that none of the individual meters were recording the stolen electricity.

The theft tapped the stolen electricity supply from the incoming wire before going through the meter.

So who to blame?

Straight accusing the landlord is wrong, if the landlord tempered with the meter that is another story but instead the renting tenant got away free?

That is finding easy way scapegoat to pay for the losses.

Also R&R problem.

Ya, those high pay fulfill 2Rs.

The cables infra before your unit meter belong to TNB. If the tapping is before the TNB’s meter and it serves another unit, it is not your issue.

If it taps before the TNB’s meter and goes to your unit, you will be at fault.

For Selangor’s PBT, there are no more overhead cables allowed (all buried underground), hence the tapping before the meter is quite impossible unless it was carried out during the construction.

Won't be like this la. They need to check electricity at substation in vs houses unit out to estimate your 'stolen' usage (+penalty if any).
Mana boleh suka2 pull number out of thin air.

With that magnitude of the usage, the incoming source intake could be easily a 200A ~ 300A CT meter.

200A ~ 300A CT meter, the bypass cable upfront cost is high. I doubt anyone who wants to steal utility will be willing to come out with such massive upfront cost. More likely, the tenant is using an existing meter registered under the owner’s name.

Buy property they say
Earn rental money they say
The property pays for itself they say

Now hailat already

Like I said the analogy, someone parked in a private car park owned by the landlord, when the car stolen instead of prosecuting the theft you go after the landlord of the carpark?

Also if people tap and steal water from the pipe from outside your house, just because it is stolen closest to the branch that goes into your house before the meter, you the landlord kena saman?

EDIT:

Why they dare not pursue the theft directly which is the tenant renting from the landlord?

Got insider job that he/she knows between TNB contractors which will be spilled out?

Now thinking carefully, this electricity thefts might have something to do with insider job just like TM cable thefts recently.

This post has been edited by petpenyubobo: Feb 19 2025, 07:09 PM

Or they have already planted tap points in the infra from beginning to allow electricity thefts during build outs.

Developer, TNB contractors and project contractors all got involvement? When the landlord decided to rent out the premise, they straight took opportunity to jump at it?

Your analogy is valid. If the tapping is from public infrastructure didn’t go into your unit, ask TNB to prove that you are at fault and benefit from the theft. If they can’t provide the proof, the argument stops there.

Your speculation statements post the edit - you need to seek your answer from the other.

Funfacts, tapping before meter is not tracked by your TNB app.

Fuck TNB, run your own solar farm and live off-grid.