Nearly 400 vehicles worth $28M recovered in RCMP anti-fraud pilot program, police say

OTTAWA — The RCMP say they’ve recovered 392 stolen vehicles worth an estimated $28 million through an anti-fraud pilot program launched in June 2025.

The program, called Project NoCargo, targets transnational organized crime networks that use stolen or phoney personal information to get vehicle loans and insurance policies.

The RCMP say these schemes contributed to an estimated $900 million in insurance losses last year.

One of the main objectives of Project NoCargo is to identify and stop these vehicles from being shipped overseas from Canadian ports, and seizures took place in Halifax, Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver.