DSI identifies burned BMW
Reporting progress on its probe into a tax-evasion scam, the Department of Special Investigation says it now knows the engine number of a BMW X6, one of six supercars burned in a blaze on May 29 while being transported in Nakhon Ratchasima's Pak Chong di
Pol Lieutenant Korawat Panprapakorn, the DSI’s regional special-case chief, said the Central Institute of Forensic Science had retrieved the engine registration number, leaving police confident they would be able trace the criminal network used by the car-smugglers.
Initial DSI investigations found that one car among the six burned vehicles contained Mercedes engine parts but had been reassembled as a Ferrari in order to gain a false registration. The institute has yet to identify the real engine numbers of two Bentley cars, one Mercedes and one Lamborghini.
Korawat said that in the past two weeks, 176 car owners had submitted their vehicles to check their authenticity.
The voluntary checks would continue, but at some stage owners would be summoned to get their cars checked, he added.
Korawat said police suspect that a wide network of people was behind the supercar smuggling, with garage-owner Thanathat Khunnut the first suspect to have turned himself in.
The six burned supercars were on their way to be registered in Si Sa Ket.
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