Civil Guard agents, within the framework of operation ‘Hoyo 13’, have arrested six people and investigated two others for being part of a criminal organization dedicated to stealing vehicles for dismantling and subsequent sale of the parts in the market. second hand nationally and internationally.
According to the police force, the operation began thanks to information provided by an ITV station in which irregularities were detected in a vehicle when it was undergoing an inspection.
From the information obtained, the agents located several illegal mechanical workshops where stolen vehicles were dismantled and their parts were introduced into the national and international second-hand market.
As a result of the investigations, it was found that there were vehicles of certain brands that were stolen in different parts of the Community of Madrid and Castilla La Mancha. After a period in which they were left standing so as not to be located, they were transferred to four illegal workshops in the town of Yuncos (Toledo), where they were dismantled.
The parts were distributed through third parties or even used in the mechanical repairs carried out on other vehicles. Other parts of the vehicle were transported by road to different seaports with connections to the Maghreb countries by a French citizen.
As a result of the exchange of information between Spain and Poland, the person in charge of the theft of the vehicles in our country was arrested at his home in Poland. Likewise, in the province of Toledo, inspections were carried out in the different illegal workshops involved, where stolen vehicles in the process of disassembly were seized, as well as a multitude of parts from other vehicles with police markings.
It should be noted that one of the main people investigated, in charge of the theft of the vehicles and their transfer to the clandestine mechanical workshops, had five search warrants, arrest warrants and imprisonment from different Courts, as well as two European extradition warrants.
The investigation was carried out by agents of the Central GIAT of the Traffic Group of the Civil Guard, with the collaboration of the Judicial Police Technical Unit (Heritage Group-Vehicle Section) the Fiscal and Border Analysis and Investigation Unit (Udaiff) of the Port of Algeciras, the Territorial Judicial Police Team of the Main Post of Illescas (Toledo) and the Local Police of Yuncos and Illescas (Toledo).