The French newspaper Le Parisien said that the National Police Inspectorate and the Central Office for Combating Organized Crime are investigating a rare type of fraud, after more than 100 cars were resold fraudulently, with the help of one or more police officers who removed them from the stolen car files.
In a joint report between Florin Loisy and Jean-Michel Dikoggi, the newspaper said that this case is unprecedented, as a police officer is at the heart of an international smuggling movement and is reselling stolen cars that have been assigned the initial legal procedures related to them.
This operation included a comfortable income for this suspected chief official along with the smuggling organizer, who is a 31-year-old officer who worked in two Parisian police stations, and he also arrested 15 people between the ages of 23 and 45, among them known fraudsters and specialists in the auto industry who did not They were known to the police, they numbered the vehicles.
The smuggling traffic includes - according to the newspaper - more than 100 luxury cars were sold in Belgium and France for money estimated at 3 million euros, and the police seized 300 thousand euros, more than half of which was in the possession of the 40-year-old smuggling organizer known to the police for falsifying car numbers. 6 cars.
According to a judicial source, since the beginning of 2020, in mysterious circumstances, more than 20 vehicles, some worth more than 20 thousand euros, have disappeared from police files and have returned to circulation in an unknown manner, but the matter started back to 2017, and it has driven more than 100 Car this way.
Wide network
The beginning of the case was a piece of information provided by a policeman from the Judicial Police in Versailles. A number of badly parked vehicles on the highway, oddly numbered, were brought to his attention and had been removed from the stolen vehicle file, so he warned the Central Office to Combat Organized Crime.
After some of these cars disappeared from the police files in mysterious circumstances without their owners or insurance companies recovering them, a secret investigation by the National Police Inspectorate began and lasted for several months, combining technical investigations with physical surveillance.
Missing vehicle story
Among the stolen vehicles was Ihsan’s car (a pseudonym), one of the victims of the network who wanted to sell it and the person who gave him the key ran away with it to try driving it, saying, “My car is in someone else’s hand without me selling it or insurance compensating me for it.” The chassis number alone and some scratches Light is already proving his car.
Ihsan filed a complaint, then called his insurance company, then sent the insurance to him with a message saying, “The authorities informed us that your car had been found.” According to the newspaper, Ihsan was invited to contact the Regional Security Department police for District 20 to retrieve his car.
The next day, Ehsan went to the Paris police station, but the police told him that the car had not been found and asked him if he was trying to deceive someone, then he called the insurance, who said it was incomprehensible.
Meanwhile, on the day after the car was found on Bellport Street and before Ihsan was notified in the mail of retrieving his car, the car was removed from the stolen car file, knowing - according to a source close to the file - that "there is no one who can carry out this kind of work except the police and the gendarmerie." ".
Find a buyer
On May 12, when Ihssan left the police station empty-handed without being able to retrieve his Audi car, a woman living in Val de Marne had already altered the car's registration card, and her role in the Criminals Association is to find a buyer, and she bought it in good faith. A foreigner who has nothing to do with this fraud.
A close source close to the investigation said, "For the family, there is no way to know the history of the car and that it was stolen, because everything is fine and the preservation recorded the car without problems, as in normal transactions, where the seller asks about the possibility of paying in cash and agrees to give a discount to the buyer in this case".
"If you stand idly by, their machinations can last for a long time," says Ihsan, who filed a complaint against an unknown. He requested that the state be referred to court, because this manipulation can only be carried out with the help of one or more police officers and state officials.