Stolen Cars Going to Ghana

It happens quite frequently these days, a homeowner gets their car stolen and no one can locate it. Next thing you know, someone in Ghana is driving their car. It happens time and time again, and many times they get away with it. Sometimes a local customer officer will catch the stolen car, but quite often they don’t.

Many cars in Quebec and Ontario are being stolen and shipped off in freighters over to Ghana according to Canadian auto insurance officials and investigators. They say that hundreds of cars have been stolen and sent over there, and it has gotten so bad that the auto insurance industry has sent people over to Ghana to train local law enforcement on how to recognize the stolen cars.

Ghana has become the hot spot for cars according to auto insurance officials, and much of it is due to the anti-corruption campaign that has been going on in Nigeria. Lagos has become a bigger risk for auto theft rings, so they are moving them to Tema now. The auto insurance industry says that the majority of people in Ghana cannot afford these cars and that they get high prices in Togo, Benin, and Cote d’Ivore instead.

However, as people continue to bring in large luxury vehicles at high prices in the region, those left at home without their vehicles are paying higher auto insurance premiums because of it. The auto insurance industry has been trying to work with the government to stop the cars from leaving the country, but there is only so much they can do.

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