The Mitsubishi branded vehicle was handed to INTERPOL NCB – Nairobi represented by Sgt. Elvis Kiplimo Rutto, on Saturday, 09 February 2019.
The vehicle belonging to Mr. Robert Stephen Jones was declared stolen in June 2014 and it had been bought by two Congolese namely Mupero and Jean Claude from a Kenyan broker James Mweya on February 28, 2014 under the sale contract made in Bukavu, DRC.
Thereafter Balaluka Masonga Benjamin bought it from the duo on March 4, 2014.
“Those who buy vehicles should first know their origins,” said Modeste Mbabazi, Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB) Spokesperson, adding that “the Rwanda Investigation Bureau authorities are working with DRC to finally arrest the suspect who stole the vehicle from Kenya.”
RIB said that vehicle theft is a highly organized criminal activity affecting all corners of the globe including the EAPCCO (Eastern Africa Police Chief Cooperation Organisation) region within which Rwanda belongs.
“These operations [to hand intercepted vehicles to countries where they were stolen from] are in line of the mandate of Interpol member countries to combat transnational crimes,” RIB said in a statement.
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