Toronto police in Canada say 500 luxury SUVs were stolen in the Greater Toronto Area this year as part of a sophisticated vehicle trafficking operation linked to Nigerian organised crime ring, B.lack A.xe, in which a Service Ontario employee fed vehicle owners' details to criminals.

Police told a press conference on Friday morning that thieves stole the cars according to a 'shopping list' handed down to them from higher ranking members in the ring, acquired vehicle identification numbers (VINs) and key codes from the Service Ontario employee and had keys cut by a locksmith, who was also arrested.

The cars were then taken to shipping yards in Montreal and Halifax and arrived in Nigeria and Ghana within days, where they were sold for roughly half their market value, police said.

Police said the investigation, nicknamed Project CBG, began in the spring of 2015 after they noticed a string of luxury vehicle thefts in and around Toronto. When they began investigating, they noticed that the thefts weren't one-offs, but rather part of an intricate web, they said.

"We had to decide as a police service and with our partner agencies whether we deal with the thefts at hand or we take the head of the snake off — so we went for the head of the snake," Staff Inspector Mike Earl said

Police say the thefts accounted for about 10 per cent of all vehicles stolen in Toronto in 2015, totaling approximately $30 million. Some vehicles were stolen from as far as Hamilton, Waterloo and Guelph, Ontario.

Approximately 200 vehicles, representing $11 million, were recovered from shipping containers with assistance from authorities in Spain and Belgium.

Not all the vehicles were destined for West Africa. Police say some were destined for Ontario, where they may have been sold to unsuspecting customers with new VINs.

Police say they are working with counterparts in the United States who have experience investigating crimes linked to . The crime ring operates internationally and has been linked to money laundering scams of up to $5 billion, police said.

http://tribuneonlineng.com/nigerian-crime-group-linked-with-500-jeeps-stolen-in-canada-this-year lalasticlala, dominique

Nigerians always representing!

After which they will come to Nigeria and begin to spray money like paper.

And their parents would roll out the drums to celebrate their children's success.

Not knowing that they are Fraudsters and thieves

oh nt again..

Destined2win:
Nigerians always representing!

on all side...

B-lack A-xe...so Aiye Men don go international. ?.they now run tinzs globally like the Russaian mafia, italian mafia and Chinese mafia ....b-lack-axe money...$ 5 billion generated in money laundering scam last year according to the report...boyz are not smiling.?.the hustle is real..Edo boyz overseas dey vex... the kind of mansions they are mounting from Lagos to Abuja n Benin, u would think they are NNPC contractors.

Good news

The day one guy told me how some of the cars we call tokunbo, is being stolen in Overseas and ship to Nigeria, I was so surprise that day. He said 90% percent of dem are stolen from Oyinbos and only 10% are brought as scrape and ship here. Even most of this iPhone and blackberry that we call London use, said most of dem are stolen from Oyinbos.

Good or bad
Just represent this ailing Nigeria

Seen

500 cars naija I hail thee

9ja can never carry last

To steal 500 jeeps sccessfully in a country like Canada?
Okay!!

Ok

let it be a western country, I bet the headline won't be like this... bunch of hypocrites

our people don't disappoint.

B.lack A.xe indeed

Always ready to tag any African 'nigeria' if its crime

awon omo oro!!!

stolen jeeps everywhere

Na wa o

Naija!!! Na God go save us

Kai, omo Naija!

hmmmm

Blame our government for allowing cultism in nigeria. Come to italy and see how Benin and edo boys are disgracing us internationaly in a high rate. Sometimes I wonder the level of home training that was given to Edo boys. Not to talk of their women that has been messing up all round the streets of europe

500 suv? That na full factory na

akindap07:
awon omo oro!!!

Bimm

Na wa