Navi Mumbai: Team Unit-1 Branch of Crime Navi Mumbai has damaged the inter-country gang from vehicle thieves, including one of the two masterminds, which uses high-tech gadgets to hack the vehicle engine module system.
Police restored 18 LMV worth Rs 1.47 Crore by arresting seven gang members from Ghatkopar, letters in Gujarat, and Murshidabad, Kolkata and Sadang in Bengal.
Kingpin who was arrested, Mohd Habibulla (40), a mechanic, lived in Ulwe rental and his aide Manoj Gupta (34) living in Kalyan.
They were arrested from Ulwe in July.
Both of them come from above.
Mastermind Raje Soni who was sought, who lived in Chembur, had arranged a flat rental in Ulwe for Habiburla and Gupta by telling the flat owner that they were high-ranking officials on JNPT, said Senior Inspector Sunil Shinde.
Shinde’s inspector said, “Habibulla first broke the vehicle window panel to enter the car and disconnected the DCM socket (direct communication module) by opening the tool box in the car.
Then, he will open the hat and decide on the siren.
He enters the vehicle and again connects the DCM circuit .
he uses external wire to connect the battery and fuse box.
After that, he put hi-tech gadgets on the button ignition and a scan unit engine control module for decoding a security code key vehicle.
Then, use the Duplicate key, he started the vehicle.
he just needs Three minutes to go by vehicle.
“He said,” After capturing Habibulla and Gupta, we found seven stolen cars worth Rs 64.50 lakh.
They revealed the name and location of their helpers who replaced the engine and the number of stolen vehicle chassis with a burning vehicle .
They made fake documents and sell it as used vehicles.
They men Untun us to Memo Sumit Dealer Road (40) and Rashid Ali (44), who were arrested from Kolkata in September.
Another Aides, N ANSARI (44) and Manish Chovationiya (47), were arrested from letters and Bengal, because they were recipients of stolen vehicles and printed chassis goods and engine numbers while Jamaluddin Saha (47) was arrested from Ghatkopar.
From them, we recovered 11 out of 18 cars worth Rs 82 Lakh.
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