Gardaí warn car buyers of the dangers of ‘cloning’

THREE Irish people have had their cars taken off them by gardaí after falling foul of a sophisticated stolen car racket involving English and Irish criminals.

And gardaí are bracing themselves for more cases after they made a public appeal to motorists who bought, or were thinking of buying, an English-registered secondhand car.

The scam emerged after a batch of 20,000 blank vehicle registration certificates was stolen from the Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) in the UK.