Million pound MOT scam on Costas broken up: "Seamus and Paula Montgomery, a retired UK expat couple, are reported in the UK national press to have been arrested for operating a vehicle MOT certificate scam for the last up to five years that has been estimated to have netted them a million Pounds Sterling in payments made by resident expats in Spain who were avoiding their having to take their UK registered motor vehicles to the UK for the MOT test.
Motor vehicles can only be MOT'd in the UK if they are physically present there and the owners are resident in the UK. However, many thousands of expats were duped by false adverts in the expat press that encouraged them to pay up to 200 GBP in exchange for a fraudulent MOT.
The crime now means that there must be many UK-registered vehicles operating in Spain that could be mechanically faulty. Police warn that driving abroad without an MOT will invalidate your insurance and could be criminal offense in some EU countries.
The arrested couple had been operating in Spain under the advertised name of “J G O’Connor”, and Essex police warn the couple have been regularlarly advertising their services in Spain over the last few years in a free weekly national English-language newspaper, the 'Euro Weekly News' and in Portugal in 'The Portugal News', amongst others."
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