KHON KAEN: Six pickup trucks and seven sedans were seized in separate police operations targeting stolen vehicles and false registration documents in the upper Northeast.
Car theft suppression police impounded the 13 vehicles - two cars reported stolen, one fraudulently obtained vehicle and 10 others with fake plates - in 12 upper northeastern provinces, Pol Maj Gen Surachai Khuantechakhup, acting chief of Police Region 4, told a media briefing on Tuesday.
Seized false licence plates. (Photo by Chakkrapan Natanri)
One of the stolen vehicles was missing from Suphan Buri and the other from Bangkok.
The real owners of the seized vehicles had been traced. They submitted the necessary documents and the vehicles were being handed back today, Pol Maj Gen Surachai said. Among the owners were police officers, restaurant owners and insurance firms. The vehicles were worth about 6 million baht.
“Most vehicles had been modified by garages in the Northeast and then put up for sale on Facebook, Line chat and other websites at cheap prices. Some were offered for sale at less than 200,000 baht,’’ Pol Maj Gen Surachai said.
Operators of the workshops and car theft rackets involved in modifying the vehicles and falsifying documents were being further investigated.
