racket involving staff from Alicante ITV vehicle testing stations to sell on written-off caravans has been uncovered by the Civil Guard with the arrest of 27 people. Twenty one of them are vehicle inspectors at the ITV stations.
The 33 caravans were amongst more than 400 which had all been sent for scrap as unfit to be on the roads after suffering serious damage in floods which hit France in 2008. The Interior Ministry said in a press release on Wednesday that the Czech company which bought the vehicles, instead of breaking them up for spare parts, repaired them and fitted them with new plates and vehicle identification numbers.
33 were sold on to an Alicante company for 9,000 € each and false vehicle inspection documents were issued. The caravans, which the Ministry said posed a serious risk on the roads and for their occupants, were then sold as new at some 10,000 € below the market price.
The total amount defrauded is put at more than 1 million €.
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