At the end of the large-scale operation, accompanied by arrests and house searches, the police brought six people before the investigating judge. Four ended up in a cell, police said.
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Police also confiscated four properties, eight cars, including a luxury BMW X6, and a number of new, unpacked items, all as illegally acquired property.
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The transport of stolen cars used to take various forms. The vehicles were often lent by small helpers in Germany, from where they were transferred to France or the Netherlands during the lease, where they fraudulently obtained new license plates before the perpetrators exported them outside the European Union. They often managed to do all this before the theft of the car was reported.
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“Other vehicles were leased in the Czech Republic, from where they were transported to Strasbourg, where they fraudulently registered them at the authorities with the help of stolen Swedish documents as cars imported from Sweden,” the police added.
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Other cars were stolen from dealers in France, Germany and Italy. With the help of stolen documents, they received new license plates.
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The police estimated the total damage in the order of hundreds of thousands of euros, ie millions of crowns.
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