The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and INTERPOL have actually revealed believed car identity scams in Kenya after investigators traced a high-end Land Rover to a theft report in the United Kingdom throughout an across the country crackdown on automobile criminal activity.
The grey Land Rover Discovery was discovered at an automobile lawn along Nairobi’s Northern Bypass throughout an operation called Operation Carback II, a week-long multi-agency operation targeting regional and global automobile theft networks.
A check versus the INTERPOL database developed that the car had actually been reported taken in the UK.
Investigators later on seized it and moved it to DCI head office as examinations started into how it wound up in a Kenyan automobile lawn.
A collage of a multi-agency group checking automobiles at various automobile lawns in Nairobi on October 17, 2026.
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The DCI stated the operation included examining automobiles versus worldwide records to determine those connected to cross-border criminal offense, with the Land Rover healing offering a direct link in between a car discovered in Kenya and a theft report in the UK.
“A significant advancement in the battle versus multinational automobile criminal activity has actually seen investigators recuperate a high-end automobile taken in the United Kingdom in an operation targeting regional and global automobile theft distributes,” the DCI validated.
“The multi-agency group combined the NTSA, KRA, ODPP, Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS), Kenya Police Service and Administration Police Service.”
Throughout the week-long crackdown, investigators physically checked more than 1,800 lorries and checked out 260,000 versus the INTERPOL database, according to the DCI.
In Thika West, investigators likewise discovered a white Mercedes-Benz Kompressor whose registration information matched an orange Suzuki station wagon, triggering additional examinations into the distribute.
In addition, in Embakasi, investigators recuperated a forklift whose records determined it as a spider. Its chassis number had actually been wiped out, triggering additional examinations by DCI Embakasi.
The findings emerged from evaluations throughout Nairobi, Eastern, Central, Nyanza, Western, Coast and Rift Valley areas.
Sources near the examinations likewise exposed that investigators targeted automobile backyards, display rooms, garages, spare-parts stores, fairs and highway checkpoints.
DCI employer Amin Mohamed, throughout an occasion at the National Investigations Academy on September 17, 2026.
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