Four people were imprisoned after the dismantling of an international traffic in stolen or hijacked cars organized mainly by criminals of Chechen origin, indicated Friday (November 20) the interregional direction of the judicial police of Strasbourg.
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At the end of a vast operation of arrests and searches Monday mainly in the Grand Est, six people "
were brought before the examining magistrate
" and four of them placed in detention, detailed the DIPJ in a press release. .
Considered as “
ill-gotten goods
”, four real estate, eight motor cars “
including a BMW X6 and an Audi RS3, and a great many new items still packed
” were seized.
Vehicle trafficking took different forms: “
vehicles were rented by small hands in Germany, then - during the rental period - brought to France and the Netherlands to be fraudulently re-registered there before being exported outside the European Union. , even before being reported stolen,
”said the press release.
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"
Other vehicles were leased in the Czech Republic, before being transported to Strasbourg to be fraudulently declared imported from Sweden by means of stolen Swedish documents
", he added.
“
Other vehicles, finally, came from thefts committed to the detriment of car dealerships in France, Germany and Italy, were also re-registered using false documents
”, according to the DIPJ.
"
For a not insignificant part of the traffic, the Russian national of Chechen origin and the main alleged instigator of this traffic also relied on accomplices specializing in fraud by theft of identities
", also adds the police.
In total, the damage caused by this traffic is estimated at "
several hundred thousand euros
".