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Nine high-end vehicles valued at more than 900,000 euros recovered

A joint operation by the Tax Agency and the Guardia Civil

  • The passenger cars had been stolen in Denmark
  • The recovery occurred in the port of Las Palmas, before being exported to Africa

October 7, 2022.- Customs Surveillance of the Tax Agency and agents of the Civil Guard in the Puerto de la Luz in Las Palmas, have recovered, since last September 22, a A total of nine high-end passenger car type vehicles, which had been stolen in Denmark recently and which were stowed inside merchandise containers destined for the African continent.

Knowledge of the facts

The central Customs Surveillance services of the Tax Agency, in their investigative work on preventive matters in the fight against the illicit trafficking of vehicles from the European Union, obtained information that led to the suspicion of the existence of several stolen vehicles that could be being transported in several containers with the intention of leaving the customs territory of the Union by exporting them to various ports in Africa. At that time, a joint operation was organized between Customs Surveillance in Las Palmas and the Civil Guard of Las Palmas for its recovery.

Container inspection

For this reason, on September 22, different containers were opened and physically examined, locating a total of nine vehicles that had not been declared in the corresponding customs documentation.

Through the chassis numbers of each vehicle, it was possible to corroborate that all of them were listed as stolen in different locations in Denmark, and that they had been reported between June and August 2022.

For this reason, procedures were initiated through the SIRENE office (request for complementary information at national entry) for the return of the vehicles to their legitimate owners.

Between 2019 and 2020, the Tax Agency and the Civil Guard have intercepted up to 35 vehicles stolen in different parts of Europe when the containers carrying them stopped in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the last port in the customs territory of the Union, before to finally be exported to various African countries.

The facts have been brought to the attention of the Court of Investigation of the Guard of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

Filming of operation (to download the video you must enter the following web address):

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