Nigeria Police recover two stolen vehicles from Netherlands, hand them over for repatriation

The Nigeria Police Force has recorded a large breakthrough successful the combat against transnational organized transgression with the betterment of 2 high-end vehicles stolen from the Netherlands and illegally shipped into Nigeria.

According to a connection issued by the Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Benjamin Hundeyin, the cognition was carried retired by operatives of the INTERPOL National Central Bureau (NCB), Abuja, successful collaboration with INTERPOL NCB The Hague.

The recovered vehicles — a 2020 Toyota C-HR and a 2019 Toyota RAV4 — were traced to Lagos and Akwa Ibom States, respectively. Investigations revealed that they were stolen from Amsterdam and Midden-Nederland, and aboriginal shipped to Nigeria done the Port of Antwerp, Belgium, arriving astatine Apapa Port, Lagos, successful precocious 2023.

Following the recovery, the Police, done INTERPOL NCB Abuja, initiated civilian forfeiture proceedings astatine the Federal High Court, Abuja. After the completion of owed ineligible processes, the tribunal granted a last forfeiture bid successful favour of the Government of the Netherlands, done the vehicles’ security company, paving the mode for their lawful repatriation.

On Monday, October 20, 2025, the Nigeria Police INTERPOL squad officially handed implicit the recovered vehicles to representatives of the security institution and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands successful Nigeria, marking the palmy completion of the cross-border betterment and restitution effort.

The Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun, Ph.D., NPM, commended the INTERPOL NCB Abuja operatives for their professionalism and synergy with planetary partners, particularly INTERPOL NCB The Hague.

He said the cognition underscores the Force’s committedness to planetary instrumentality enforcement practice and to dismantling transgression networks engaged successful cross-border conveyance theft and smuggling.

“The palmy betterment and repatriation of the vehicles bespeak our unwavering dedication to ensuring that criminals progressive successful transnational crimes are denied the proceeds of their amerciable activities,” the IGP stated.

The Nigeria Police reaffirmed its committedness to intelligence-led policing and planetary collaboration successful tackling each forms of transnational organized crime.

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