Casablanca – Madrid Municipal Police have dismantled a network allegedly involved in registering in Spain vehicles that had previously been stolen in Morocco, with two people arrested and two others under investigation.
The operation was completed in June after investigators identified seven vehicles that had been fraudulently registered and recovered another vehicle, according to police sources cited by Europa Press.
The case began when officers from the Carabanchel police station detected a vehicle circulating with an expired registration plate. During the inspection, they found foreign vehicle documents that did not correspond to the car.
The findings were passed to the Judicial Coordination Police Station, which continued the investigation. Officers established that both the documents and the vehicle’s homologation code were false.
The investigation subsequently uncovered the use of fraudulent paperwork to register vehicles in Spain that had been stolen in Morocco. Police have not released further details about the identities of those arrested or the locations where the vehicles were recovered.
The operation comes as Spanish police forces continue to uncover cases involving stolen vehicles being given apparently legitimate documentation before being registered or sold in Spain.
On Tuesday, Mossos d’Esquadra also announced the recovery of nine high-end vehicles stolen in Denmark, Italy, and France, with a combined value of around €640,000, in a separate investigation into fraudulent registrations and falsified documents.