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NORTH VANCOUVER RCMP Const. Todd Fookes examines a list of returned vehicles, including Leah Zavaglia’s 1984 Jaguar. The Jaquar was
among 16 cars seized in a fraud investigation of a used car sales scheme involving Uniglobe Auto Brokers.

N. Shore residents retrieve vehicles

THE BATTERIES were
dead, The better car stereos
or speakers were gone.
Standard. tires replaced
expensive wheels.

By Anna Marie D’Angelo

News Reporter

But for 12 people, most from
North Vancouver, it was a relief to
see their old cars and trucks on
Thursday.

The vehicles were released to
their owners as a result of a B.C.
Supreme Court interpleader hearing
on April 5 concerning a used-auto
fraud case involving Uniglobe Auto
Brokers.

The company once had an office

near Bewicke Avenue and Marine
Drive in North Vancouver.

North Vancouver resident Leah
Zavaglia, 21. was one of 24 car
owners entangled in the scheme
locally.

“Lm not accepting any post-
dated cheques again. That’s a biz-
gie.” said Zavaglia on Thursday
from somewhere on Annacis Island
while the News helped fer jump-
start her 1984 Jaguar in the pouring
rain.

“Pim very fortunate to get my
car back. Is stil for sale.” said
Zavaglia who was given nwo worth-
fess cheques for $10,000 (postdat-
ed) and $300 for her car last fall.

The Uniglobe scheme, estimated
to be worth $5 million nationwide,
saw carowners issued with postdar-

ed cheques in exchange for trans-
ferting car ownership to Uniglobe,
according to North Vancouver
RCMP fraud investigator Const.
Craig Duffin.

Duffin said Uniglobe office staff
called people selling their vehicles
in the Auto Trader magazine and
offered payment close to the asking
prices.

“A tot of the people really want-
ed to sell their cars. Some of them
had their cars in the Aue Trader
for two months without a nibble,”
said Duffin.

He said police received
Uniglobe complaints about one
month alter the operation began last
fall.

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