City takes aim at ‘crypto’ vehicles
The City of Cape Town has finally acted on information regarding vehicles owned by foreign nationals in the city.
The Citizen reports that several have been impounded after they were found with fake registrations.
Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis said there are ‘crypto’ and ‘forex’ traders driving fancy cars with fake registrations or none at all.
‘Tonight (Tuesday) we impounded cars in Parklands without valid registrations. In one case, a brand new silver Merc GLE was registered as a white BMW were impounded for further criminal investigation. SA needs stronger policing; that’s why we will build a Cape Town Metro Police Detectives Unit to investigate crimes ourselves,’ he said.
In March last year, Nigerian rapper Prince Daniel Obioma, known as 3GAR, crashed a R3m McLaren 570S coupe into a wall in Sea Point, Cape Town, and triggered an investigation by the Special Investigating Unit into his residence in SA.
Last month, the Department of Home Affairs revealed that hundreds of thousands of vehicle permits given to foreign nationals are irregular.
The data relates to the issuing of Traffic Register Numbers (TRNs) used by foreign nationals to process vehicle-related documentation.
TRN numbers are given to foreign nationals who do not have SA ID numbers, as well as foreign ‘businesses, organisations and non-legal entities’ who need to register on the eNatis system.
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