Great auction coming up in France from government seized cars

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Jul 3, 2013 | 06:46 PM

exRockstar

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Great auction coming up in France from government seized cars

Veyron starting at 400.000 euros
MC12 400.000 euros
Carrera GT at 180.000 euros

http://www.classicdriver.com/en/auct...er-8-july-2013

Jul 3, 2013 | 07:30 PM

JonA85

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MC12 would be an awesome buy.

Jul 3, 2013 | 09:03 PM

scuderia

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scuderia is an unknown quantity at this point

Does anyone know the backstory of the seizure? Those are all pretty awesome cars.

Jul 3, 2013 | 09:06 PM

Alef_henriique

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All this cars were seized last year.
If i remember well, belongs to the President of Equatorial Guinean, he was using state funds to buy private properties.

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Jul 3, 2013 | 09:11 PM

scuderia

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Oh that's crazy!

Jul 3, 2013 | 09:24 PM

exRockstar

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Yeah, the seize was recorded live. Remember seeing those truck in Paris last year being loaded with rolls royce's, bentleys, Enzos, the MC 12? These are the ones. The cars are in very good state.

Jul 4, 2013 | 03:52 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Alef_henriique

All this cars were seized last year.
If i remember well, belongs to the President of Equatorial Guinean, he was using state funds to buy private properties.

The son of the president, not the president himself.
This story stirred a lot of other debates, some crying out racism and etc... since they always single out wealthy Africans and would never dare doing that to any Arab or Russian.

Im just appalled that this early investigations into this was started by a friggin NGO!
This guy's been living like this for years since he was a teenager in France.