29 stolen British cars worth over £1million found in a wasteland of Uganda

It was a sort of chance discovery of 29 stolen British cars when detectives trying to trace a Lexus stolen from London ended up tracking it to Uganda, thanks to the state-of-the-art tracking device fitted on the £50,000 SUV. The Lexus was found alongside a fleet of British cars worth more than £1 million.
The tracking device got activated as soon as it was taken from outside a property in west London.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 22 September 2015.

Thanks to the tracking device, the National Crime Agency used a smartphone app to trace the journey of the stolen RX450h 6,000 miles to the Uganda capital Kampala. And, they were stunned to find it alongside 28 other luxury cars which had been stolen from the UK by the gang of car-smugglers.
The stolen Lexus first went to Le Havre, in France from where it was shipped across the Mediterranean Sea and through the Suez Canal down to the Middle Eastern nation of Oman. It was next shipped to Mombasa in Kenya and finally transported by road to Kampala in a steel container.
It seems locals drive on the right-hand side and, hence, luxury right-hand-drive cars are in great demand in land-locked Uganda.
(Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org)

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