Thieves sell £13 million worth of stolen cars using empty DVLA logbooks
Around £13 million worth of cars stolen in London have been sold to unwitting buyers after thousands of blank DVLA logbooks that were meant to be destroyed fell into criminal hands.
The logbooks went missing three years ago and are being filled in by thieves to give stolen cars genuine identities, according to an investigation by the BBC's Inside Out show.
The faulty 130,000 logbooks were on their way to be shredded when they disappeared. Thousands of car owners could be left out of pocket if the cars they bought turn out to have been stolen.
A DVLA spokesman said: "We publicised details of the registration documents, wrote to industry journals, newspapers and put a spokesperson on TV. Our website has information on it how to avoid being duped."
