Retailer bans car number plates as illegal supply found

The online retailer Amazon is banning the sale of car number plates on its platform after the BBC London investigation revealed.

The BBC found that seven companies on the platform were selling plates without checking consumer documents and setting their legal rights on the plate.

It is illegal for UK companies to supply number plates without seeing no documents such as a driver’s license or V5 documents.

Amazon said seven products of BBC investigating companies were removed and sales of all number plates would be eliminated in addition to novelty plates.

Illegal supply number allows easy access to plates, which is formally known as vehicle entry plates, which can be criminalized in the clone.

The number plate cloning includes placing a copied plate on a similar look. After that all fines and fines are sent to the innocent owner of the original vehicle.

Last year BBC revealed a 64 % increase More than three years of fines due to car cloning incidence in London.

The BBC purchased number plates from seven suppliers on Amazon who topped the listing on the purchase day. All ordered number plates were delivered without producing a document without BBC.

BBC found:

• Four firms (Defense Line, Domo Corporation, SLS UK Holdings, Plastic Services) supplied plates without requesting no documents
• Two firms (official plates, Patalica Express) said ID was necessary but then sent the plates without requesting documents.
• Only one business (Reg Locker) said with a text message that the documents were asked to be sent to the email address. When the BBC ignored the request, the plates were sent and arrived a few days later.

Roth Cadbury, a member of the Labor MPs of Brent Ford and Oil Worth, said the BBC’s results were “very disturbing”.

One of a firm selling plates without checking documents was Volt Shire -based SLS UK Holdings Limited, saying it was “DVLA registered” and “Road Legal” number plates Sold.

The company is administered by Jordan Diakan, which appeared on the Dan’s Dean in 2014 at the age of 18 and received 000 80,000 from Deborah Maden for the DIY company, in which it is now in Not included. Mr Diakan refuses to comment on the BBC results.

Plastic services are another, which legally provided BBC number plates without the required checks.

West Berry, also based in Weltshire, is listed in the DVLA register of suppliers, as SLS UK Holdings Limited works with the same address.

McCurley Beyonce, a former business partner of Plastic Services and former business partner and acquaintance of Mr. Dicken, refused to answer BBC questions about the results when contacted to comment through both the letter and personally Cauted, and claimed that they needed more information to respond.

Both Defense Line Limited and Domo Corporation Limited supply plates without request to view documents. The Defense Line did not respond to our request for our opinion, while the Domo Corporation declined to comment, saying that they needed more information to respond.

Two other companies, official plate Limited and Mina Supplies Limited, said the ID was necessary but the two dispatched the plates without any request. Official Plates Limited declined to comment.

In a statement, Mina Supplies Limited said: “We take the law compliance very seriously and are determined to maintain all legal and regular requirements to supply the number plates.”

Regger Limited followed our purchase with a text message that requested the documents to be sent to the email address or through the WhatsApp. The BBC ignored the text and the plates were provided a few days later.

The company said: “The temporary staff has not clearly followed the text message requesting compliance documents.

“All temporary staff will be re -trained so that no such monitoring is re -.”

From 2021 to 2023, about 90 90,000 penalty charge notes were written due to number plate cloning.

Leather Head, Surrey, Stella Rosko, learned that his car was clone when he received a police letter stating that he was accused of fleeing an accident in Elford. Legal action is being taken. Mrs Rosko says she has never gone to Alford.

“If you get a letter from the door saying that you are being prosecuted, it makes you feel scary,” he said.

“You feel like a criminal and I couldn’t understand how it could be because I knew I was not there.”

At the time of the incident, her car was standing in her garage at the Leather Head when she was in a nearby event with 10 other people.

The Metropolitan Police acknowledged that the car plates were clone, but the insurance claim against it continues for seven months.

Ms Rosko said she would want a plate cloning to be sentenced to prison.

One of the country’s biggest suppliers, Managing Director of Hills Plates, Rob Lafarne, said he was not surprised by the BBC results.

“This online plate supply world has unfortunately exploded at the point where it has been out of control because the plate supply is not the latest of the rules,” he said.

“The rules are emphasizing that you still have to see the original documents physically.”

Hills is running a pilot scheme to show that digital copies of the ID can be used to prove that the user deserves a number plate, some other government agencies have already done.

The DVLA said: “We work together with police and commercial standards to take action against suppliers who do not comply with the law.

“A legitimate supplier will always ask to see the ID and entitled documents before selling the number plate. Where this does not happen, the members of the public can directly report their local commercial standards.”

Ms Cadbury said that the DVLA has told the Transport Committee that the Home Office is about to issue a report on the car cloning case at the end of last year.

“We are still waiting for the results of this report, we understand a lot of work, I can’t believe the recommendations are very difficult,” Ms Cadbury said.

The Home Office said: “Cloning and defamation of number plates affect road safety and it provides core to criminals. We with police, DVLA and other partners to end these crimes. Working together.

“We started working on a new road safety strategy, the first in a decade, which aims to reduce road deaths and prevent related crimes. Further details will be shared properly. “