Stolen car log books causes massive vehicle fraud!
on January 31st, 2010 at 11:23 pmVehicles worth £13m have been stolen as a result of the loss of thousands of blank DVLA log books, a BBC investigation has found. The police say they could be dealing with the impact of the blunder for over a century. Criminal gangs use the stolen vehicle registration documents to sell cloned cars on the private market. The DVLA says it is a criminal activity outside of its control and it is working with the police to stop it. Car cloning is the vehicle equivalent of identity theft. Gangs copy the number plate and other identifying details of a legitimate car onto a similar, but stolen clone. They also copy the genuine vehicle’s log book – or V5 form – by using one of thousands of blank DVLA documents that went missing some time in 2006. “We’re recovering about ten a week and we think there’s easily over 120 to 130,000 stolen blank documents out there still,” DCI Mark Hooper from the Association of Chief Police Officers’ (Acpo) vehicle crime intelligence service, told BBC 5 live’s Donal MacIntyre programme. More
