Tracking devices revealed luxury car thieves on E4 – Aftonbladet

Last Saturday was recovered three stolen luxury cars of the BMW mark along the E4 highway, at the lake. The cars could be located using tracking devices. The last year has 19 cars for a total value of just over 18 million found thanks to the new technology.

When police raided a trailer along the E4 : an at Vättern on Saturday found a stolen BMW. Track transmitter that was hidden in the car meant that the police could be headed to the right place. But when the trailer was checked in its entirety, it was bingo. Two more stolen BMW cars were on board, a total police could seize three luxury cars worth a total of three and a half million dollars.

– Many times it so that the “prank call” collects several cars on a trailer for profitability reasons, and now we are so lucky that there was a car with a tracking device along with two other stolen cars, says Klas Wassberg at Guard Systems which sells the track transmitter which this time was successful.

Cars for 18 million

Increasingly tracking devices coming to market. Those Guard Systems provides under Klas Wassberg resulted in 19 recoveries of cars worth more than 18 million since September 2013. A transmitter costs about 1400 dollars to buy more than a few hundred dollars in operating costs per year.

Should insurance companies pay for this equipment to their customers?

– Absolutely. It should be included when you take out the insurance, says Klas Wassberg.

League exploded in Skåne

Using tracking devices could police tracing even blow up a luxury car league that raged in southern Sweden.

When did a crackdown on their premises they found three recently stolen cars of the BMW X5.

During the search they found objects from another six stolen cars. The police were using tracking devices to locate a stolen BMW X5 to a store in Ängelholm. The police put surveillance on the premises and it was not long before the two men appeared, driving alone in the further a stolen BMW X5. They made a raid and managed to arrest the two men. In the premises again found two recently stolen luxury cars of the same brand.

– Did not these cars have tracking devices, we probably had never found them. It is important to develop this technique to prevent these thefts, says Göran Kellner, chief investigator for the insurance company If.

Manipulated security

All the stolen cars were equipped with an immobilizer system. There is a security system which means that when the key is turned in the lock, there is a readout of an electronic code stored in the key. If the code is correct, start the car. During an investigation of the stolen cars so you could see that someone tampered with immobilizer systems for the cars to be able to use them.

Fann tools and key shells

search warrant of the premises and the men’s residence, they found one tool and blank key shell with the men’s fingerprints and DNA. These have been used to install new electronic codes of keys to use them. They also found items that could be linked to another six stolen luxury cars. Although these cars were equipped with immobilizer system.

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