He subscription car It is a modality that has become very fashionable in the automotive sector in recent times. This service, offered by companies like Wabi, stands out for offering the user a vehicle without the need to purchase it. It is somewhere between renting and carsharing, since you pay a monthly fee to enjoy the model you want and all derived expenses are included. Of course, in this mode the user is never the owner of the car. Despite this, a criminal network sold them illegally.
The National Police, in a joint operation with the Mossos d’Esquada, have dismantled this network that is accused of defrauding 800,000 euros for this crime. What they did was coordinate the monthly vehicle subscription through family and friends, doing everything conventionally. In this case, those affected were Lynk&Co that has its vehicles under this modality. The criminals chose the car and paid the monthly fee to use it, but there came a point when they stopped paying.
At that time they got to work falsifying invoices, sales contracts and powers of attorney. In this way they managed to make ownership changes so that they became fraudulently in your name. The next thing was to sell those cars to people who did not know their origin through online buying and selling platforms. The hook is that They offered them at an attractive priceclearly below its real market value, deceiving those buyers who came in good faith.
In fact, they managed to sell 15 of the cars before they were caught. The operation began in August 2024 after the company that owns the vehicles put a complaint for the disappearance of 19 vehicles. From Madrid, the investigation moved to Barcelona, where the first vehicle was illegally appropriated. When they were pulling the thread they discovered that behind everything they were 17 people from the same family. All of them have been arrested between L’Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona) and Vila-real (Castellón), while 18 of the 19 stolen cars have been recovered.
