Take Back Ferrari: US Police Are Looking For The Owner Of A Supercar Stolen 20 Years Ago

2023 Author: Natalie MacDonald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-05-21 02:36

The US prosecutor's office has begun an official search for the owner of the Ferrari F50 supercar, which was confiscated by the country's customs back in 2019 when trying to import it from Canada. As WIVB clarifies, the supercar has been hijacked since 2003, and the car was stolen on the other side of the ocean.

• Customs officers at the border of Canada and the United States, when inspecting the car, noticed that some parts of the plates with the VIN numbers of the supercar were covered with a black resinous substance. The car was placed in temporary storage, and during the investigation it turned out that the Ferrari F50 has been considered stolen for 18 years. A car, which is estimated at almost $ 2 million, was hijacked in Italy.

• According to Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr., it would be inappropriate for the agency to use its powers and simply confiscate the valuable rarity in order to do with it at its discretion (say, auction it off). Therefore, the country's authorities will try to return the car to the owner. However, now the prosecutor's office cannot unambiguously establish the true owner of the supercar, so there will be a court to figure out who exactly owns Ferrari.
• At the time of the theft, Italian Paolo Provenzi was considered the official owner of the supercar. According to CarBuzz, he paid about $ 309,000 with his father and brother for the F50. However, a certain Mohammed Alsalussi claims his rights to Ferrari, who claims that he bought the car in 2019 for one and a half million dollars and had no idea that it was stolen. Provenzi's lawyer, who is also investigating the story, says the car has changed owners and traveled to many countries over the past 18 years, including Japan.

• Ferrari produced the F50 supercar, considered one of the brand's flagships, between 1995 and 1997. In total, no more than 350 cars were assembled, which were equipped with a 4.7-liter V12 paired with a six-speed "mechanics". In the summer of 2020, at Gooding auction, one of 55 examples of a supercar model built for the US market was paid $ 2,134,000, although the auction value of some particularly rare examples may exceed 3 million.
• In October, Australian police returned the 74-year-old owner to the pink Holden Torana, which had been stolen back in 1992. And in February of this year, the story of St. Petersburg resident Artyom Antipov, who managed to independently find the ToyotHighlander stolen from him, became known.