Number	24445
Subject	Crime
Source	RBS-TV/Globo TV (Brazil)
State	n/a
Year	2009
Publication Date	05/17/2009
Summary	"It is estimated that 37 thousand stolen vehicles are cloned every year in Brazil." To do so, they must use fake documents to pass car inspections, which allow them to receive counterfeit plates. To reveal all this activity, the reporter had to befriend these people and act as one of the gangs involved in the cloning scam. Also, the reporter learned how these criminal acts work and what it takes to pull this all off.
Category	Contest Entry
Pages	8
Keywords	car cloning; Paraguay; gangs; drugs; criminal commerce; police; con; rip-off; inspections; cars
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