KARACHI/ISLAMABAD: A very expensive and luxury car Bentley Mulsanne that was stolen from London has been recovered from a bungalow in Karachi on Saturday.
The Collectorate of Customs Enforcement (CCE) in Karachi confirmed the recovery of this stolen luxury car. The UK’s intelligence agency informed the Pakistani authorities that the stolen vehicle was parked in a house in Karachi’s Defence Housing Authority (DHA) area.
The market price of Bentley Mulsanne in Pounds Sterling starts from 242,000 Pounds (Rs 63 million without taxes) and goes up to 288,000 (Rs 72.50 million excluding taxes).
According to the Federal Board of Revenue, a credible information was received from UK’s intelligence about a grey Bentley Mulsanne, V8 Automatic, VIN Number SCBBA63Y7FC001375, Engine Number CKB304693 was stolen from London and the said vehicle was parked at a bungalow in DHA, Karachi.
The suspects involved in the theft of this expensive car failed to remove or switch off the tracing tracker of the vehicle. Resultantly the tracker helped UK authorities to trace the exact location of the vehicle in Karachi.
When the FBR officials raided the house, they found that the Bentley with a Pakistani registration number plate and a white handmade number plate on the front. The FBR stated that the chassis number of the car matched with the one shared by the UK’s authorities.
Thus, the FBR’s Collectorate of Customs recovered the vehicle and informed the UK authorities.
How this very expensive stolen vehicle was shipped to Karachi and who did it? The FBR officials are investigating it with the help of Karachi police.
