How Do Traffickers Bring Old Cars With Forged Documents To Sell Them In Algeria?

Algiers Security Services addressed the case of a criminal cell that used forged documents in the administrative records, vehicles’ documents, international smuggling of used vehicles and the use of vehicles with no numbering, and arrested three suspects.

The merits of the case, according to the statement of Algiers authorities, which copy is available to Echorouk, began after drawing the attention of the members of the police forces of the administrative district of Algiers Bir Touta, about the movement of two suspects on board of a tourist car, after they were brought under security surveillance, as one of them escaped and was trying to swallow something, but security services find out that it was a piece of paper with the serial number of a vehicle, and found a sum of 12.5 million centimes, and arrested him with the second suspect, after the car was monitored, they found out that it do not apply to any registered vehicles in Algeria.

The suspect said he met someone in a car market and that he was planning to buy his own car, adding that the paper contained a serial number of a car that was removed and prevented from traveling, after extension of jurisdiction and permission to search the suspect’s house, security services seize a forged sum of money in Algeria dinars, a tourist car with a registration number that does not apply to the car brand that was found by the police force, but applies to another car, and then he admits that he bought the foreign car, which is not registered, for 40 million centimes to replace it with another one after changing the basic parts.

After confirmation with the National Center for Automated Information Systems and Customs Statistics, it was found that the car had not been subject to consignment, and after continuing investigation, it was also found that one of the cars was brought from Spain via the Port of Mostaghanem (western Algeria) by a foreign national with double nationalities, who neither registered the car nor for import.

Based on the above information and based on the investigations, it was ascertained that the parties to the case were involved in the international smuggling of old vehicles that are frequently demanded by citizens, as the dual nationality nationals bring the vehicles to the national territory without customs’ control, and let them in Algeria for only six months, then they then sell them to their partners, who falsify their documents and record them at the level of administrative services, and then put them up for sale in private markets.

After the completion of the legal proceedings, the three suspects were brought before the regional undersecretary of the republic, who ordered placing them in provisional custody, while two of them received direct summons.