A luxury supercar never goes unnoticed, especially when it is an exclusive and unique specimen in the world. A car with these characteristics draws everyone’s attention, even those people who do not show a special predilection for cars. The design and high economic value of super sports cars make them almost a work of art and the object of desire for many.
The latter is what led two men to steal an exclusive Sbarro GT1, valued at 1.2 million euros, from a Murcia mechanical workshop, posing as its owners. The two men, who are already being investigated by the Civil Guard for crimes of misappropriation and document falsification, falsified the papers of the historic car, making the owner of the workshop believe that one of them was the owner of the supercar.
The Sbarro GT1, manufactured in 1999 and of which only one unit was produced, remained in a mechanical establishment in Murcia after having been repaired. The real owner of the supercar took the car to the establishment to have it checked and then asked the owner of the workshop to keep it for a while because he was going to undergo surgery. So far everything normal.
However, taking advantage of the fact that the owner of the car was not in the workshop to pick up the repaired vehicle, an individual together with a middle-aged man went to the establishment and drove the car away without the owner’s authorization or consent.
This person, according to the Civil Guard, identified himself in the workshop with the vehicle’s documentation as the owner of the vehicle. He threatened the manager that if they didn’t let him take it away he would report him. The employee agreed to this request, although it was not the person who had left the supercar to be repaired.
The first investigations carried out allowed us to verify that there were two illegal criminal cases of misappropriation and documentary falsification in the transfer procedures due to change of ownership of the vehicle. The Civil Guard investigations finally led to the improperly appropriated vehicle that was hidden in a garage in an urbanization in Murcia.
One of the elderly thieves has been investigated as the alleged perpetrator of the crimes of misappropriation and documentary falsification. A second person was also located, who accompanied the first when he appropriated the vehicle in the workshop, who is being investigated as the alleged perpetrator of the crime of document falsification, for introducing change of ownership documents into the legal process of the administration without being signed or have the consent of the interested party.
The Sbarro GT1 has been made available to the Investigating Court of Murcia, along with the proceedings ordered.
The crime of misappropriation is included in article 253 of the Penal Code and is punishable by imprisonment of one to six years and a fine of six to twelve months. The crime of documentary falsification committed by individuals in an official document is sanctioned in the Penal Code, in its article 392, with a prison sentence of six months to three years and a fine of six to twelve months.
