All it takes is a communion of crooked car dealers, conniving State agents and cross-border criminal networks with tentacles in prison and voila! The Standard investigations found that crooked dealers have been using NTSA insiders to register the luxury cars and motorcycles stolen or smuggled from South and East Africa. He then spent an additional Sh300,000 to regularise each car’s registration status and later sold a unit for at least Sh2 million, making a tidy profit. Many car owners are proudly driving cars whose duty was never paid and importation documents were forged,” Kalua said. Cars from Tanzania and Uganda are relatively cheaper compared to Kenya because there is no age limit of used cars that can be allowed into the two countries.

Source: Standard Digital December 27, 2020 07:30 UTC