The President of the Ghana Union of Merchants Association (GUTA), Dr Joseph Obeng, has appealed to stakeholders to collaborate successfully with the Chamber of Vehicle Dealership Ghana (CADEG) to ascertain standards for figuring out stolen vehicles.
That he stated would assist take care of points together with that of the December 9, 2022 the place the Economic and Organised Crime Workplace (EOCO) in collaboration with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) raided plenty of used auto dealerships (garages) and retrieved a number of imported luxurious autos suspected to have been stolen from United States of America and Canada.
Dr Obeng was talking at a stakeholders assembly organised by the CADEG in Accra final Friday.
The assembly was aimed toward deliberating and discovering methods of stopping harmless vehicle sellers from incurring losses on account of crime they will not be straight concerned in.
“There may be the necessity for state and non-state actors to collaborate successfully to have the ability to establish the varied modus operandi of criminal operations and share it with governments everywhere in the world.
“This may assist them set up standards for figuring out stolen items and intercept them on the nation of origin and/or earlier than it will get to the vacation spot,” he said.
Dr Obeng stated data on these standards ought to then be extensively disseminated for individuals to know, detect and report any suspected case to safety businesses together with Interpol for the required motion.
Mr George Dumenu, Government Secretary, CADEG, reiterated that the stakeholder engagement had develop into crucial as a result of December 9 incident because it had had grave penalties for the auto dealership within the nation by creating an enormous distrust between purchasers of used autos.
He pressured that inspectorate businesses had been required to confirm all autos, their requisite paperwork, and approve similar earlier than they had been allowed to pay import taxes to the state.
“It then comes as a shock that these autos after going by all these checks are actually tagged as ‘stolen autos’,” he added.
Mr Dumenu said that the CADEG believed that majority of those vehicles had been really not stolen vehicles because it was being alleged because the checks and balances in these countries had been so strict that an atypical dealer from Ghana doesn’t have the sophistication wanted to perpetrate such against the law simply.
He subsequently known as on stakeholders to make use of their places of work to salvage the state of affairs and urged authorities within the USA and Canada, to do correct due diligence earlier than permitting cargo of used autos out of their jurisdiction.