Peel Regional Police have busted a re-VINning scheme involving tractors and trailers, some of them stolen.
The Insurance Bureau of Canada defines re-VINning as: “the process whereby criminals illegally and fraudulently alter the VIN of a stolen vehicle to conceal its identity, enabling the criminal to register and sell the vehicle to an unsuspecting buyer.”
Police say they recovered $1.45 million in trucks, trailers and cargo.
On March 11, police responded to the report of a fraud in progress at a trucking yard and truck repair facility at Derry Road East and Beckett Drive in Mississauga, Ont.
Investigators from the Commercial Auto Crime Bureau conducted a search warrant the following day which led to the discovery of 14 re-VINned trailers, one stolen trailer, three re-VINned transports, and two stolen transports that were in the process of being dismantled.
Two of the trailers were refrigerated and contained stolen raspberries and beef, which were recovered and returned to the victims.
Charged are: Inderjit Singh Walia, a 50-year-old man from Brampton; and Narinder Shoker, a 43-year-old man from Brampton. Charges have not yet been proven in court.
Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to contact Commercial Auto Crime Bureau investigators at 905-453-2121 ext. 3313.
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