please is a long episode.
it was so sad but a life story of a guy who went and bought a second hand car from a panel beater without knowing it was a stolen car until police came for me. at the process of buying the car, he requested for the contact of the person that sold the car to the panel man but he said that the number was not going but provided the original particulars which gave him a more conviction. when he went for change of ownership, he found out that the chassis number in the data base was different from the one written on the paper (there was one written that was different from the one on the car door and wind screen) the road safety woman advised him to use the one on the body of the car since it is also the one in their data base in as much as it have not be surly registered and he further requested for the contact of the supposed owner if the car but there was non. later on he started calling the number written at the back of the paper and a guy picked up confirming that it was his car and promised to assist him in providing necessary information for the vehicle. on the day they are to meet, it was police that surfaced. on getting to the station, they now informed him that the car was snatched at gone point and the victim was also shot but when they found at that he was not dead they wanted to hit him with the car but he fell in side a gutter. that was how he would answered what he knew nothing about, but his saviour according to the police was that he was the person that made the first move to contact the owner.
so when buying a second hand car
try to know the story behind it
try to contact the previous owner
if possible try to run a background check must especially when the seller is not the first buyer