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<\/a><\/p>\nA VW Golf, sold for just over \u00a310,000, had been re-fitted with airbags taken from a stolen car, which police say test show would have failed to deploy in a collision.<\/p>\n
Detectives investigation linked the group to 117 stolen cars taken from the West Midlands, Liverpool, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, Warwickshire and Yorkshire but it\u2019s believed the group harvested parts and body panels from hundreds more stolen vehicles.<\/p>\n
West Midlands Police exposed the extent of the group\u2019s criminal enterprise after a \u00a370,000 Mercedes SL400 stolen from Aylesbury Road, Solihull on 1 May 2017 was traced to a garage in Digbeth\u2019s Charles Henry Street.<\/p>\n
The car was found with false plates and surrounded by a stash of car parts, body panels and number plates from 21 stolen cars.<\/p>\n
Detectives discovered stolen parts were being sold by the men through two eBay accounts \u2212 BritishGermanCarSpares and car_parts_2010 \u2212 which had shipping addresses linked to Nadeem and Arshad.<\/p>\n
Cops tracked a third chop shop in Grove Road, Sparkhill, after a BMW stolen from a garage forecourt in Derby.<\/p>\n
A Proceeds of Crime hearing in April will decide how much money the gang needs to repay.<\/p>\n
Arshad, 42, of Eastlands Road, Moseley; Nadeem, 28, of Glovers Road, Small Heath; Zameer, 30, of Gladstone Road, Sparkbrook; and Hussain, 31, of Finch Road, Lozells, had all previously admitted conspiracy to handle stolen goods.<\/p>\n
The gang was were jailed at Birmingham Crown Court on December 10, \u00a0Arshad, was jailed for seven years, Nadeem for six, Zameer, who had also admitted assault, to five-and-a-half and Hussain to four-and-a-half.<\/p>\n