Beware, thieves target Luxury cars

Apart from the direct costs that come in form of unit price, maintenance and other associated costs, luxury cars, especially second-hand have attendant problems, which among them include a racket of thieves that steal and later sell them to unsuspecting people.
Therefore, it is highly advisable that when you choose to buy a luxury car, you must ensure that you do not get tied into the problems of stolen cars, especially stolen from Europe.

In 2016, Daily Monitor conducted an investigation to understand how stolen luxury cars enter Uganda and later sold on the open market.
The investigation came on the heel of the discovery of about 36 luxury cars that were allegedly stolen from UK and imported into Uganda.
Some of these cars, which were estimated at about Shs4.35b, were located in car bonds across Uganda while others had already been sold to particular individuals from whom they were impounded.

Details provide by Interpol and the UK Home Office indicated that there were important leads linking some Ugandans to a car theft racket based in Europe and Asia.
Such cars are stolen and imported into the country with the connivance of customs officials, who falsify their details to elude any would be follow up.

The cars, the investigation showed, mainly stolen from UK and driven through France before they are shipped to the Middle East and later Mombasa port.
They are later concealed in containers and transported to Kampala by road before they are delicately smuggled into bonds under a well-planned scheme involving customs officials.
Once in bonds the cars are sold under falsified documents.