Gardaí highlight dangers of buying cars privately

GARDAÍ are seizing up to two stolen cars a week from innocent buyers who have purchased the vehicles privately believing they were genuine cars.

The buyers are forking out on average between €20,000 and €40,000 for their cars in cash and have no way of getting their money back after gardaí impound their vehicles.

The Garda Stolen Motor Vehicle Investigation Unit will tonight take part in a Crimecall broadcast on RTÉ highlighting the dangers of buying cars privately. “There’s an epidemic of people buying stolen cars through the trade magazines... and over the internet,” said Detective Sergeant Finbarr Garland of the investigation unit.