The police is hunting for a man identified as Ismail Uwimana for his alleged illegal cars dealing in the country.
It is said that Uwimana has been in this illegal buying and selling cars so as to avoid taxes.
Available information has indicated that, Uwimana brings cars into the country and puts old number plates as a way of dodging taxes.
According to the official website of Rwanda National Police, Uwimana has a network of other culprits because they help him remove and attach the number plates.
However some of the accomplices in this illegal act have been arrested and they include Uwimana’s wife, Hamida Uwihanganye, Issa Nkundabagenzi, Yahaya Mukundabantu, Hashim Habimana.
According to both RRA and Police, the following vehicles are among those which were on the streets with old number plates but were later detected; Toyota Corolla RAA255K, Toyota Land Cruiser RAA496L, Toyota Land cruiser RAA 664B, Toyota Land Cruiser 974w, Toyota Land Cruiser RAA 074J, Minibus Toyota Townace RAA375C, Isuzu Trooper RAA785V and Minibus Toyota Townace RAA415Q.
Reports indicate that many vehicle owners were unaware that the log book registration numbers of their vehicles were not genuine.
The garage owners play a distinct role which includes importing vehicles and giving them old number plates to authenticate local ownership.
Last week, Police nabbed four suspects involved in the scam.
ACP Emmanuel Butera, who is in charge of operations and public order at the Rwanda National Police, said there are some people who commit such crimes hoping to elude law-enforcement organs, adding that police, in collaboration with other stakeholders like RRA, will always unearth such criminal actions.
“We are still carrying out investigations to establish whether there are other people who engage in such habbits,” Butera stressed.
Butera advised whoever plans to buy a car to always carry out thorough investigations about the vehicles that they would want to buy.
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