MONTREAL — Ontario Provincial Police and the Canada Border Services Agency say they prevented nearly 600 stolen vehicles from being exported overseas after searching 390 shipping containers at the Port of Montreal.
Around three-quarters of the 598 seized vehicles, with an estimated value of $34.5 million, were stolen in Ontario, police said.
"As our intelligence indicated, the vast majority of recovered stolen vehicles, more than 430, were taken from the Greater Toronto Area,” Kearns said. Project Vector partner Équité Association, an anti-crime organization funded by insurance companies, has estimated that around 70,475 vehicles were stolen in Canada in 2023, with more than 30,000 of those in Ontario.
“More than one million containers pass through the port each year and the vast majority of the goods they contain are legitimate,” she told reporters.
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