Scams Insurance: Gang of Car Thieves Captured

If, on several occasions, he managed his way, he ended up getting caught by the criminal police. The head of an insurance company, he was arrested last Friday for "complicity to defraud."

The procedure used by the suspects is the same. They invite in auctions where bargains abound. There they set their sights on the crashed cars. Last year Jeenaly S. has offered a Mitsubishi Lancer, 2007. The vehicle was sold after a serious accident.

However, he had another idea in mind, apart from the body again. Indeed, far from throwing money into the hands of a mechanic or other sheet metal worker, he had found a surefire way to get the car new. Thus he has made off with the same model in the region of Bel-Air.

Once his petty theft, he simply interchanged the chassis number of the crashed car to put it on the one he had just stolen. To avoid suspicion, he even changed the color of the car. The stolen vehicle is black, he painted in white, just like the car crash.

This process is completed, the next step in his scheme is to make the rental of the car. Exercise that found a buyer quickly. Thus, in December 2012, it falls on the right pigeon. He asked him to cause an accident with the car rental. It will darken a tree to screw up the car and bring the case to the police. It is Balaclava he went to put the plan into action. Thereafter, the tenant of the car went to the police station in Terre Rouge to report the collision with the tree.

Arrest of an expert

To certify that the car has indeed been damaged, an expert from an insurance company even sent to the site for an observation. The expert confirmed that everything is in order and advance the documents to proceed to the next step which is the payment of the insurance premium.

In no less than three occasions, the car was involved in accidents "fictitious". It was after an investigation that began on the flight of the Mitsubishi Lancer in the pot gradually rose was discovered by detectives.

Indeed, during the last stage of the accident, the car landed in a garage at Nicolay Road, Port Louis. Criminal Police Port Louis North arrested a experts from the insurance company. She suspects it to be part of a vast network of car thieves, operating across the island. Two insurance experts have already gone by the wayside. They meet a provisional charge of "conspiracy to defraud insurance policy." However, they maintain their innocence. They are on parole.

Meanwhile, Jeenaly S., was placed under arrest. He said he knew nothing about the car from the Mitsubishi brand. This is a case that the detectives take seriously because, Quatre-Bornes, another suspect was caught by police. He is suspected of being one of the alleged masterminds of these schemes. Other arrests are expected in this case. The police investigation continues.