SA – Moz blitz nets 32 stolen vehicles

First of a series of crackdowns A CROSS-BORDER operation involving South African and Mozambique police has netted more than 32 stolen vehicles in the first of a series of crackdowns which the authorities of both countries have agreed to undertake. Operation Maluti spokesman Pedro Cossa of the Mozambique police says that the bulk of the vehicles had been stolen in SA. Engines have been tampered with and false registration plates attached. “We have been aware that two provinces immediately to the north of Maputo have been harbouring vehicles with suspicious registrations,” he says. ”This is not the first time and it won’t be the last that police will conduct this type of operation.” A number of vehicles have also been brought into the country from South Africa where the correct procedures had not been followed. Companies on both sides of the border are now being questioned, he says. Most vehicles stolen from South Africa enter Mozambique through illegal crossing points on the vast border between the two countries.