Tracking stolen cars from Canada and the US. The technology used is pretty advanced.

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It's a big problem in the UK. Russian gangs are stealing cars and shipping them to Russia. Even though the VINs are listed as stolen, there is massive corruption there with Customs.

Between 25% and 30% of high value late model cars on the road there are stolen.


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Could be better now with the shipping restrictions on Russia in place.

Walther Schmelzeng has a problem. The insurance investigator went with the police to reclaim a luxury car that had been stolen from Germany and traced to Moscow, where it was being driven with forged documents.

But Schmelzeng cannot return the car to its rightful owners, as it has again been reported stolen, this time by the well-connected, but dishonest, Russian owner - a government prosecutor.

'I cannot return it to its German owner as the police will arrest me for driving it,' said Schmelzeng. 'Once we took the car, the prosecutor gave an interview to a local newspaper about me, then went to the police.'

The situation has become so grave that last week Schmelzeng gave a press conference to expose the penchant for stolen top-of-the-range cars that is rife among the great and the not-so-good of Moscow's high society. He has appealed to the Kremlin - a call that went unanswered - and pointed the finger at high-ranking corrupt officials - a notoriously dangerous practice.

An estimated 1.5 million stolen cars are being driven around Russia. The BMWs, Mercedes, Bentleys, Cherokee Jeeps or Humvees are often stolen to order in western Europe or the US, then brought across eastern Europe's porous borders.

Customs officers are paid off and the car is resold, with a new set of documents often supplied by enterprising police in Russia. The vehicle is registered in the name of someone who has died, or a homeless person.

The problem goes to the top of Russia's biggest businesses. The vice-president of one of Russia's largest energy companies drives a Mercedes S500. The car was registered in his name, and Schmelzeng, who says it was stolen, won a court battle to get it back.

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Are you not amused there now TX.?

Are you not amused.?

The only way this works is with countries that are highly corrupt. You have to be able to pay off customs, vehicle licensing and police in order to put these stolen cars on the road and it is a very lucrative business.

In the Global Corruption Index, Nigeria ranks #154 out of 180 countries and and Russia ranks #136. That's why it's so rampant in those countries.

Russia is a complete shithole. Apart from a Moscow abd St. Petersburg, the place is a dump. Corruption? The corruption in Russia makes Mexico look like a paragon of virtue.

And these scum have nukes. We should have wiped them out in the 1950s.

It might get worse, now that the Russian auto industry has collapsed. The solution might be to completely ban the export of used cars.

There's a thread about that started today.

Thread: REPORT: Russia’s Car Manufacturing Collapses by 97% in May

Not only that but the price of motor oil us up by a factor of ten.

Just old memories were they really as this old Navvie used relate old stories in canteen of old London Town as there was always a certain silence as old ganger-man would say I was a lying bastard.

Truth to be told tho as Bertie would chide me for my lying old stories as those old stories had a great train O'truth.

Just like my old ma as she would go out of early morn with old uncle Chris as old Chris was told to close fox earth for hunt of old grand master. Old Chris of course would leave some bolt-hole for old foxy of course unbeknownest to great lord.

Old ma of mine swore holes in any old pot as she and Chris lay on grassy bank as they both espied a funeral of a weasel as said weasel traipse along to bury an old female.

Such were the wonders of that old world even as Bertie thought me a lying fecker.

Well surely he must be able to come up with something to gaslight Russian being a corrupt shithole where our stolen cars are being sold.

Why’d this thread get 10 1-stars?

the corruption in first world countries is more sophisticated.

Here come the Russian shills with excuses for their glorious motherland.

Maybe look at every urban center of any city in america to see the real shit hole LOL

LOl. Go fuck your momma. Hope that fat sloppy bitch dies of cancer.

Yikes.

Sounds like we'd better nuke Nigeria and Russia for stealing our cars.

Nuke them from orbit to be sure it never happens again.

LOL

germans are your god suckers

My cousin is a mechanic. And he works on very high end cars.

The wealthy pay to install devices in their seats and steering wheels.

The device is a spring/compression loaded contraption that burst through the seat and impales the thief's butt and or back. Its very sharp and will impale quite deeply. The spring/compression is very strong that trying to shield and block it wont work.

It has a hidden disabling feature that only the owners know where it is.

It also comes with a secondary feature that it sends high voltage bursts through the steering wheel.

Not possible, pootie is superjesus.

What’s ironic is that Ukraine comes in at #122. Less corrupt than Russia.

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$2 kill switch on the cable for the ODBC port and another on the starter motor. Yeah they could eventually work it out but it slows them down.

From your profile picture you look like a retard!

That's what I want. A spring-loaded blade hidden inside my car seat. What could go wrong?

Bro, not only can they steal cars, but China and/or globalists can shut your car down in the middle of the mountains, in the middle of a blizzard. or, mash the throttle to the floor while on a busy highway. Or simply lock you out. I would never own a new car. /poop they is

The problem is, we are very quick to get on the case of some small-time car thieves in Bongo-Bongo land and complete the really Big Thieves on our shores.

As an example, just look at how NHS contracts worth billions were awarded to Friends and Family during the scamdemic. Some muted noises, but no real action was taken. This kind of activity occurs regularly, at very high levels of business, in British and Western countries. These result in the loss of billions, if not trillions of GBP/EURO/USD, usually at the expense of ordinary citizens. Yet, someone steals a Toyota Corolla in Ontario, and we send a whole bunch of detectives to Lagos.

In these Third World shi*holes, the ruling class steal billions of USD from their people (Oil revenues, Gold, Diamonds, Government coffers) and run to London, Paris, New York to deposit the proceeds in local banks. These banks (and everyone and their dog) know these are clearly stolen funds, but accept the deposits with open arms.

Do you realise we have a law in this country called "In receipt of stolen goods" Research this law and see its implications. Further, if you or I, attempt to deposit GBP10k at the local Barclays, HSBC etc, do you know how much paperwork we have to complete to satisfy AML regulations.

Matthew 7:5
You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

Tax the car manufacturers for the full amount of all vehicles stolen that year of their make.

You'll be amazed how quickly they figure out how to make their vehicles more secure.

Right now, the incentives are all in the wrong direction. Manufacturers sell more cars to replace the ones that get stolen.

Biden has stolen 40+++ billion dollars of American's money to pass out to his friends.

Yeah, I guess that makes car thieving almost patriotic. :)

Unless it is your car! :)

Yup, with the keyless ignition, they have actually made cars way easier to steal. Don't even need to cut a key anymore, don't have to break into the ignition switch. Just a couple button presses on a new key programmer device and you drive away with an undamaged vehicle and a working key that you programmed from a new blank.

A lot of do it yourselfers are installing hidden kill switches .

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Exactly!!!!!

Britain and America are the undisputed champion of corruption and should be right at the top of the Global Corruption Index.

But it's easier to focus on some Toyota Corolla car thieve in Lagos.

Yep.

Dodge has come out with a flash that kills the WIN module so that no new keys can be programmed. The down side is if the customer wants a new key the WIN module must be replaced in order to program the key and all the old keys must be present or they will be orphaned.