Cars seized with fake documents

Cars seized with fake documents

JAKARTA (JP): Jakarta Police traffic officers have seized 20
cars, including a BMW, a Mercedes Benz and a jeep, and 30
motorcycles since November last year, with fake vehicle ownership
documents, fake license plates and fake licenses, the traffic
police chief said on Monday.

Col. Nyoman Sukesna said no suspects had been arrested so far.

"The suspects sell the cars via several middlemen, who are
strangers to one another. The middlemen place advertisements in
the papers," Nyoman told reporters at Jakarta Police
Headquarters.

Quoting statements from the car owners, Nyoman said the
suspects would place two kinds of advertisements in the papers,
typically listing a temporary house address, or only a cell phone
number.

"The middlemen would take off from the contracted houses once
a deal was made. Once the cars were sold, the middleman would
then move on to another home," Nyoman said.

"If a potential buyer were to call an advertised cell phone
number, the middleman would visit the house of the potential
buyer, ready with his fake ID card, whose numbers were already on
the fake vehicle ownership documents of the car he meant to sell
to the buyer."

"It's as if this middleman was the first owner of the car, so
that he could convince the buyer in case the buyer wanted to
extend the ownership and needed to borrow the ID of the
middleman."

Nyoman said the traffic police were doing their best to track
down the suspects.

"I urge all city residents before they buy cars, to check the
documents of the car they mean to buy with city traffic police
headquarters." (ylt)