The police are trying to track down sophisticated car thieves who are apparently smuggling luxury vehicles stolen from Greece into Israel while receiving assistance from within Israel to smuggle them in and register them as personally imported vehicles | For now there are no arrests
The mystery of the fraud: In recent months, the police have been conducting an undercover investigation to find out how 30 luxury vehicles, mainly BMWs and Mercedes, were smuggled from Greece to Israel, as revealed by journalist Eli Senor in Hachot 13.
The vehicles themselves belong to the owner of a car rental agency in Greece, who had no idea about the disappearance of the vehicles. The one who raised the suspicion is the global BMW company, which discovered that one of the vehicles that is supposed to be in Greece is being serviced at a garage in Israel, and alerted the owner of the Greek dealership, who was surprised to find this out.
According to the report, the Israel Police took the update from Greece seriously and began to look for and understand some mysteries, how and how those vehicles were put on a ship that left Greece for Israel, how they were released from the port of Ashdod without suspicion, and the bigger puzzle is how those 30 stolen vehicles managed to be registered at the licensing office as arriving vehicles In personal import.
For now there are no arrests, but the police suspect that this is an international network that has started operating in Israel and is worrying the police.