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They reduced the mileage of cars to make them more attractive.
A fraud network for the sale of vehicles has been dismantled in the Nantes region, announces the national gendarmerie.
Two companies, which made themselves known on classified ads sites (such as Leboncoin), allegedly participated in the traffic.
The first, targeted by the complaint of a customer, sold over a period of two and a half years a thousand vehicles, including 449 with an anomaly in the odometer (decrease between 20,000 and 200,000 km).
The second company, linked to the first, sold 735 vehicles, including 382 with mileage faults (decrease between 20,000 and 180,000 km).
Most of these vehicles were registered in Loire-Atlantique.
Many suspicious objects seized
The investigations of the gendarmes led to the arrests on Tuesday in the Nantes conurbation of ten men and women from Eastern Europe.
Computer resources "allowing the realization of fraud on the counters and computers" of cars have been discovered.
Branded bags, illegally imported cigarettes, six vehicles and jewelry were also seized, reports the gendarmerie.
Investigators also seized nearly 86,000 euros are in cash and from the bank accounts of the suspects.
And as if that were not enough, a "large quantity of stolen items" was found at the home of one of the suspects, prompting the opening of a new investigation for concealment.
Of the ten people involved, seven will be tried in 2021. Four others have received an “obligation to leave French territory”.
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