Two transporter trucks with stolen Lexus cars detained in Russia

VOLGOGRAD, October 18 (RIA Novosti) - Traffic police in the Volgograd Region to the southeast of Moscow have detained two car transporter trucks with two stolen Lexus cars, a police spokesman said Sunday.

The transporter trucks also carried a dozen other cars and were bound from Moscow to the Russian North Caucasus republic of Dagestan.

"During a check at the Gorodishchensky police checkpoint... the documents for two Lexus cars were found to be fake, while the cars were registered as stolen from their owners in Moscow ten days ago," the spokesman said.

The spokesman said the car delivery driver offered the police 100,000 rubles ($3,400) to cover up the affair, but was arrested and now faces up to three years in prison and a fine.

Expensive cars stolen in Moscow and other Russian cities are often taken to the volatile republics of Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia, and the instable situation in the region, which has seen an upsurge of militant violence this year, as well as connections of local residents, prevent carjacking cases from being solved.