It is now confirmed that a number of posh cars driven in Kenya are stolen vehicles from the United Kingdom.
According to an article in one of UK's leading publications, The Economist, an officer with Britain’s National Vehicle Crime Intelligence Service, states that about 79,000 cars were stolen from Britain in 2015.
In the article, police unit investigating the syndicate said the vehicles were shipped to Kenya through the ports of Mombasa to Uganda, Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, Boma in Congo and Oman where they were sold.
Detective Nathan Ricketts, who is playing part in an operation launched to curb the crime is quoted in the article saying, that around 40 per cent of the stolen vehicles will eventually be recovered.
“Mr Ricketts found a stash of 28 high-end British vehicles in Kampala last year (2015) after tracking one via Oman and Kenya,” reads part of the article.
In a report by the Standard, the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) did not confirm or deny the claims but noted that it had handled similar cases, adding that suspects only wanted to evade taxes.
Last year in December, a cargo container that was carrying three Range Rovers was impounded when authorities at the Mombasa port realised that the container was disguised as household goods.
Following the seizure, KRA Commissioner Julius Musyoki said the action to evade taxes was to deny the Authority more than Sh19 Million levied on such top of the range vehicles.
The Commissioner also suspected that the vehicles could have been stolen from the United Kingdom since the container had been shipped from Britain.
