Expensive Porsches, mercedes benz cars and Harley Davidsons: in an investigation into an alleged car rental company for the underworld, the Dutch financial investigation FIOD a capital cars seized.
The FIOD fell this week to eight homes and commercial buildings within in the provinces of Noord-Brabant (Dutch) province of Limburg to Belgium borders and in Germany. Except eleven cars and two engines, names of detectives, expensive watches and 15,000 euros in cash seized. There is no one yet held. The FIOD says that there are several suspects in the frame.
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The suspicion is that a business by means of complex constructions, cars rents to criminals. In reality, it would be the cars of the criminals themselves. Also with this trick of taxes evaded, what in these cars amounts to tens of thousands of euros per car.
The searches were in Tilburg, Breda and Nieuwkuijk (province of Noord-Barbant) and in Maastricht (Limburg). German colleagues from the FIOD searched buildings in Aachen Würselen.
At the seized cars can be the lovers of thumbs and fingers licking. The FIOD won this week four expensive Benzes, including an exclusive AMG GTC road. Also, a brand new Porsche GT3 (list price 229.000 euro) and a Porsche Panamera Turbo SE Hybrid seized.
In a pieces of less expensive Chrysler Voyager found the FIOD with the help of a customs team hidden areas. So in an ingenious way the achterstoel to be folded to a secret compartment for drugs, money or weapons. Also came across the FIOD on a luxury motorhome converted truck, which is also used as workshop, can be used.
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Criminals are making use of rental cars, so police and justice they cannot take it away as a criminal possession. The rent of the car is often done in the name of a straw man, or through complex structures across the border.
in recent years, the government has tried everything to these tricks. It is going to the city of Tilburg since last year rogue car rental companies through a licensing requirement. Who is not a integriteitstoets, no permit. The result was that 19 of the 30 car rental companies, stopped. The companies that remain, do not take cash, and always ask where the customer the car.
Found passport
Also in Amsterdam knew crooks unerringly which car rental companies they had steps to make themselves anonymous on the roads to go. Some rogue landlords have used for years, found a passport of one of the Finnish tourist cars to rent. Fines could never be recovered, because the Fin could not be found. Criminals paid cash to the account. Meanwhile, Amsterdam is stripped of the most dubious rental companies.
