Alert sounded on demo scam
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by David Craik • Police in Cardiff have arrested a man they suspect to be a con-artist who borrows demonstrator vehicles using fake insurance and then disappears.
Charles Lee, salesman at MAN South Wales, says police swooped last Wednesday morning on a "swarthy looking man" with an Irish accent calling himself Tony.
Lee says the man had earlier arranged to pick up an MAN 8.163 7.5-tonner that morning but that he had been made suspicious when the man's given name and contact details seemed similar to those published in an article in Commercial Motor in February. He quickly contacted the police who moved in for the arrest.
In the article appeals were made by police seeking a man calling himself Tony Greenway who told a Buckinghamshire dealer that he wanted to use a white demonstration Iveco with the intention of buying up to one hundred of them (CM 19-25 February). A certificate of insurance was supplied but the vehicle was not returned.
The CID in Cardiff's Cathays district says the man's real name is Shaun Ryan, of Coniston Gardens, Wembley.
Cathays CID is eager to speak to anyone who has been involved in similar incidents.
Contact 01222 222111.