Detectives have commenced investigations to nab all those involved in the theft of three high profile vehicles en-route to Uganda concealed in two containers.
The three vehicles had been confirmed stolen from Kenya’s INTERPOL Motor Vehicles data base and were discovered after an alert was issued from the National Vehicles Crime Intelligence Service.
The three vehicles a Range Rover Sport, Range Rover Vogue and Land Rover Discovery were intercepted by DCI_Kenya Detectives. The verification of the vehicles has already been done by KRA Corporate officers.
Luxury right-hand-drive cars are in great demand in land-locked Uganda, where locals still drive on the left as part of the British colonial legacy but import companies struggle to transport new vehicles.
A few years back, a stolen Lexus led to the discovery of the smuggling ring when the SUV was taken in April, and later tracked to Le Havre, in France, where it was shipped across the Mediterranean Sea and through the Suez Canal down to the Middle Eastern nation of Oman.
Detectives tracing the Lexus stolen ended up tracking it to Uganda – where it was found alongside a fleet of British cars worth more than £1 million.
The SUV had been shipped to Mombasa in Kenya before being transported by road to Kampala – where locals drive on the right-hand side – in a steel container.
The £50,000 SUV was fitted with a state-of-the-art tracking device, which activated as soon as it was taken from outside a property in west London.
As a result the National Crime Agency was able to use a smartphone app to trace the journey of the stolen RX450h 6,000 miles to the Uganda capital Kampala, where they were stunned to find it alongside 28 other luxury cars which had been stolen from the UK by the car-smuggling gang.