Inside supercar smuggling ring behind ‘biggest EVER’ hoard of stolen sports cars worth £6.5M seized by cops

COPS have dismantled a notorious car smuggling ring after seizing a hoard of stolen sports cars worth £6.5million.

Police involved in "Operation Titanium" recovered the luxury vehicles with a £222,000 Lamborghini Huracan Spyder among the haul.

The seven-year probe began when officers seized four stolen Mercedes cars from a container at Southampton Port.

This initial investigation revealed that the same person was sending other luxury UK vehicles that had been fraudulently obtained in Bangkok.

Intarasak Techaterasiri, the mastermind behind the thefts, went by the alias Boy Unity.

He recruited several people, including four UK citizens, to establish his vast criminal enterprise.

In 2017, it is believed four UK nationals fraudulently financed 35 cars using forged documents, often using their own details.

Within a week of getting the keys, the cars were illegally exported to Thailand via shipping containers, which block tracker alarm signals, or unwitting air freight companies, and then sold to innocent customers.

Cops described the operation as a "sophisticated" finance fraud as they recovered Porsches, Mercedes and a Ford Mustang.

Peter Duncan, who ran one of the companies that unwittingly transported the vehicles, said: "This is probably the biggest single block repatriation of cars in the UK, definitely the biggest I have ever seen.

"It's a great feeling to get these cars back into the UK, especially to get them back to the people who rightfully own them.

"I'm happy to have them home in an operation where we have learnt a lot and improved a lot off the back of it."

Now, a host of expensive cars have made their way back to the UK after being shipped to Thailand by criminal gangs that targeted motor dealers.

The criminal behind the "stolen to order" scheme is now in prison in his home country awaiting trial.