The Russian car market is coping with a shortage of spare parts for luxury cars thanks to the German car mafia. Criminal groups in Germany are stealing luxury cars to sell them for parts on the Russian market.
Most of the dismantled material is carefully packaged and sent to Russia, where stocks of pre-war spare parts have already run out - there is an acute shortage of almost all parts for European cars. This is reported by Bild .
Law enforcement officers in Germany registered 63,000 such cases last year. Investigators say that organized gangs work quickly, precisely and very skillfully.
After analyzing a number of these thefts, experts came to the conclusion that the specialist thieves probably worked in a car repair shop or in car factories. This is confirmed by the fact that no pieces or elements of broken spare parts were found at the crime scenes - they were removed precisely.
It is believed that most often thieves take parts from cars between 1 and 4 in the morning. However, the perpetrators are not very creative, they work according to the same scenario.
First they block the alarms of parked cars and destroy motion sensors, video cameras in parking lots and garages, and then they break the car locks and pry out the necessary components and assemblies.
Well-trained specialists disassemble mainly expensive cars for spare parts. The main orders come from Russia. One recent robbery in Hamburg, however, went beyond imagination.
The owner of a luxury Mercedes GLC 300 saw the criminals and called the police, but before the patrol car arrived, the criminals had leisurely escaped with the loot. In Hamburg alone, 2,873 cars were broken into, robbed and dismantled in one year. This is 13% more than in previous years.
In Germany as a whole, the total losses from "suppliers" of spare parts for the year amounted to almost 124 million euros, which is 9% more than in the previous calendar year.