How crooks sneak in luxury vehicles

One of the two Mercedes Benz inside a container before it was pulled out at the KRA Customs bounded Warehouse at the port of Mombasa, January 31, 2017. The container had been declared as loaded with hospital equipments by the importer. [Photo: Gideon Maundu/Standard]

In June last year, an undercover operation hatched months earlier by Interpol was executed simultaneously in cities in Eastern and Southern Africa.

The aim of the sting was to bust a motor vehicle theft ring with operations in several European and Far East capitals.