Recovery of Embezzled Vehicles
Rental Car Embezzlement: Recovery, Investigation, and Legal Repatriation
Rental car embezzlement refers to the unauthorized use, retention, or misappropriation of a rental vehicle with the intent to deprive the rental company of its rightful property. This can include failing to return the vehicle on time, using it for unauthorized purposes, or violating the terms of the rental agreement. Perpetrators may attempt to conceal the vehicle, making recovery difficult.
At Digitpol, we specialize in investigating rental car embezzlement cases. Our process includes tracing the vehicle, working closely with law enforcement to ensure its seizure, and navigating the legal framework to reclaim the vehicle for the rightful owner—the rental company. We prepare and present all necessary legal documentation to secure the return of the vehicle.
In some cases, vehicles may be resold to unsuspecting third parties. These “good faith buyers” can complicate recovery, but Digitpol has robust procedures to investigate such situations and establish rightful ownership.
Dealing with Altered Vehicle Identities
When a stolen vehicle’s identity has been altered—through changes to the VIN, engine number, digital encoding, or other identifiers—Digitpol’s vehicle forensics experts step in. We use specialized techniques to uncover the vehicle’s original identity, including:
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Stamped VIN verification
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Engine number analysis
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Digital VIN recovery from ECU systems
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Inspection of labels and other identification markers
These advanced methods significantly increase the likelihood of successfully recovering stolen or embezzled vehicles, even when perpetrators have attempted to disguise their identity.
Digitpol ensures that rental companies can recover their assets safely, legally, and efficiently, no matter the complexity of the case.
Vehicle Transport
We track stolen vehicles on a daily basis, we also have a service to recover the vehicles with our own transport vehicles, we can recover any vehicle and parts and repatriate them back to the rightful owner. This service requires documentation and is offered via the insurance sector, also to private owners. The service is European wide.
Re-fitting of seized parts
Vehicle are often stolen for their parts, often all the parts are seized by Police along side the vehicle, we provide the collection of vehicle and parts and the re-assembly of the recovered parts, this fast tracks the repatriation process and ensures the vehicle can be presented to a dealer or inspection center for a final check.
Aftercare of Recovered Stolen Vehicles
Stolen cars require a detailed inspection once they are recovered, this covers how many keys are coded, replacement of keys, locks, clearing of fault codes, re-coding new keys and a total inspection to ensure the vehicle can be repaired to a pre-stolen state and can be re-sol
GPS Trackers & Alarms
We supply and fit GPS Trackers and Alarms to all vehicles, if your vehicle is stolen and is to be returned to you, we can return it with a GPS Tracker installed and an alarm system fitted, this is essential as it is common vehicles are re-stolen. Due to inadequate security measures, many vehicles are vulnerable to theft. Factory-installed alarm systems are often susceptible to hacking by criminal organizations.