BANGKOK (NNT) - Operation “Titanium” – a coordinated effort by the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) to bust a network that imports stolen luxury cars from the United Kingdom – has so far succeeded in reclaiming 26 stolen vehicles, with nine more yet to be recovered.

 

The operation was initiated in response to a 2017 request from the British embassy for Thai authorities to track down 35 luxury cars stolen from the UK and illegally imported into Thailand. The DSI accepted the case in 2018.

 

Justice Minister Somsak Thepsuthin and DSI Director-General Triyarith Temahivong said the 35 vehicles were brought into Thailand between July 2016 and March 2017. All of the cars were imported using forged documents by a sole importing firm that sold all of them to imported auto showrooms run by network companies.

 

Officials were able to track down 26 of the vehicles whose owners were unaware they were stolen and subsequently relinquished the cars to authorities. The owners are now being treated as witnesses. The owners of the remaining nine vehicles have meanwhile refused to hand them over and will be prosecuted for accepting stolen goods.

 

Authorities said the showrooms that sold the cars would also be prosecuted if found culpable, as will the importer for declaring falsified import tax records and importing stolen cars. Efforts are currently underway to return the stolen cars to their original owners.

 

Source: https://thainews.prd.go.th/en/news/detail/TCATG220920151055314

 

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