The has announced the arrest of members of a notorious criminal syndicate responsible for the theft of vehicles across the Kumasi Metropolis in the Ashanti Region.
In a statement issued on June 23, 2025, the police said that they had arrested five suspects through intelligence linked to the syndicate.
The police indicated that four of the five suspects were Nigerian, with the remaining one being a Ghanaian. "Over recent months, the police received multiple reports of victims being trailed from financial institutions and having large sums of money stolen from their vehicles while parked.
The syndicate, often using Toyota Highlander vehicles with fake registration plates, identified and followed targets before striking. "Through coordinated intelligence and surveillance by the Police Intelligence Directorate and the Intelligence Video Surveillance (IVS) system, two vehicles used in the crimes were traced.
