“There are employees who have been working for 25 years, but none of them remembered a similar case of trying to deceive the controller in this way,” wondered Egidijus Gončauskas, director of the Panevėžys technical inspection center.
One resident of Panevėžys, who was too lazy to repair an old clerestory, decided to obtain a technical inspection certificate by deception.
The manager of the center was surprised at the fraudster’s naivete that it would be enough to put the numbers of a messy car on a clean car, and the controllers would not notice such a change.
High mileage tripped
A middle-aged man drove the Opel Zafira car, manufactured 23 years ago, to the technical inspection station located on J.Basanavičiaus street. The controller found a number of faults – some of them were minor, others were more serious.
One such was the rusted pipes of the brake system, as well as heavy fluids.
The controller instructed the driver to remove them within 30 days and to come back for a re-inspection.
At the same technical inspection station, the driver appeared again on the last day of the specified deadline.
During the re-inspection, only previously identified defects are checked. This time, the car was in good condition, but the inspector noticed its mileage. It was even 80 thousand. kilometers higher than a month ago. It was hard to believe that the driver would have been able to drive so far in a car that was in disrepair.
When asked about such a discrepancy, the driver acted offended. Suspecting that the car’s mileage was falsified, the controller again did not issue a technical inspection certificate.
Spotted the differences
After the driver left, the controller shared his doubts with E. Gončauskas. The inspection stations are equipped with video cameras, so it was decided to review the video recorded a month ago.
Then it turned out that the driver tried to deceive the controllers. Sometimes two different cars of the same model were driven to the station.
“The color and make of both coincided, the number was also the same, but the car that was opened a month ago had a sunroof, and during the re-inspection it no longer had it,” the head of the center explained.
He did not go to another station
The attempted fraud was reported not only to the police, but also to other examination centers.
“When a car arrives at any technical inspection center in the country, a red warning window would light up for the inspectors.
But the system does not show that he has arrived at any station”, said E. Gončauskas.
Officers quickly identified the driver. When registering for the inspection, he had given his driver’s license details to the station staff.
Panevėžys police representative Odeta Jukniūtė confirmed that the driver has been identified and the investigation is ongoing.
2023-07-28 13:08:00
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