TORONTO: The York Regional police in the state of Ontario has busted a gang involved in theft of vehcles in the Greater Toronto Area and Southwestern Ontario.
The Police said that the total value of recoved vehicles was more than 3.2 millon dollars. 11 suspects have been arrested and 96 criminal charges are filed against them.
The York Regional Police said on Monday, that a group of individuals was targeting high-end vehicles and planning to traffic them as far away as Azerbaijan and Georgia in eastern Europe.
The group allegedly used residential areas to store vehicles that had recently been stolen out of the Greater Toronto Area and southwestern Ontario.
Police said Six search warrants were executed in December 2023 and January 2024 in Vaughan, Toronto, London, Cambridge, and Bradford, recovering 52 vehicles. In turn, police charged eleven people with almost 100 criminal offences, including but not limited to theft of a motor vehicle and trafficking property obtained by crime.
The following suspects have been charged: Scarborough residents Zain Afzal, 20, and Arpan Dutta, 20; Newmarket resident Andrey Pokrovskiy, 57; Cambridge resident Mohammad Hadi, 35; London resident Darren Proulex; Branford resident Sanan Abbasov, 64; Kitchener resident Sadkoul Derman, 54; and Toronto residents Ibrahim Tairou, 32, Kamal El Hadji Dani, 46, Mina Pebenito, 31 and Shaibu Kooli, 34.