The ‘Other’ Art of Car Sales

A man has been charged with selling the same car to two different people without transferring the legal ownership to either of them. The Guardia Civil in Pinos del Valle tracked down the 59-year-old alleged culprit in Vélez-Málaga.

The Guardia Civil had come across a BMW parked on a country lane in Pinos Puentes and upon checking the car against their computer records found that it had been reported stolen in Torrox. They then began asking around the town about the car and one local said that he had seen a local woman driving it.

They tracked down the woman, who stated that it was hers and that she had bought it on the 20th of April. Furthermore, she had bought it from her ex-husband for the price of just 600 euros. She showed them the car key and the car documentation.

In the meantime the Guardia Civil had been in contact with the person who had reported the car stolen in Torrox, who said that he had bought it off a man from Vélez-Málaga on the 12th of April and that soon after somebody had stolen it.

Subsequent police investigations discovered that the ex-husband had kept a copy of the car key and photo copies of the car documents and, allegedly driven off with the car from outside the house of the Torrox man only to sell it to his ex-wife for the said 600 euros.

(News: Pinos de Valle, Granada, Andalucia)