CANADA....THE CAR STOLEN FROM A STREET IN ONTARIO, FOUND IN NIGERIA.

By Chandrayee Roy Choudhury, Canada: Ahmad Abdallah’s SUV disappeared from his street last September, he thought he would never see it again.

He looked for clues in surveillance video of the thieves unlocking his 2017 Toyota Highlander and driving off in seconds, but concluded they were too well-organized, too well-resourced and too professional to be tracked.

More than six months later, they were able to find his vehicle—sitting in a lot in a suburb of Lagos, Nigeria.

After seeing video of his own car for sale overseas, Abdallah realized how truly organized the criminals who stole his car may actually be.

Cars thought secure can now be broken into with simple tools, insurance representatives say, leading to criminal enterprises taking advantage of low-risk, high-profit opportunities to sell Canadian cars to markets in the Middle East and Africa.