The State Police seizes a large number of vehicles recycled through false nationalizations
The State Police found and seized over 200 vehicles found to be of illicit origin and re-registered from abroad using false documentation, for a value of several million euros.
The complex investigative activity, carried out by the Traffic Police and coordinated by the III Division of the Traffic Police Service, which began in 2021 and has continued until today, was born from an analysis of the phenomenon of nationalizations of vehicles from EU and non-EU countries.
From this analysis it emerged that numerous requests initially coming from Denmark and then mainly from Spain showed irregularities which generated suspicion among the police that a hypothesis of vehicle recycling was hidden behind these practices.
From these elements, an intense control activity of the vehicles for which this suspicious nationalization practice had been carried out was therefore started throughout Italy but above all in the Campania Region, in close collaboration with the Traffic Police Department for Campania and Basilicata. and from which it emerged that the vast majority of them were actually the subject of recycling.
The criminal objective of those who participated in the various nationalization practices aimed at recycling the vehicles, usually medium and high range, was to "clean up" a stolen vehicle mainly in the same area of discovery, through documentation that would make it appear to be of regular origin from another State.
Thanks to this activity, in addition to the recovery of hundreds of vehicles, a clear signal was also launched, namely that the Traffic Police, through various specific campaigns, is paying particular attention to a sector, such as that of the nationalization of vehicles of foreign origin, where various typologies are often found of crime, from those of a fiscal nature such as VAT evasion, to actual money laundering.
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