Director-general Francis Meja said the move was part of the bid to improve information sharing through its online register, the Transport Integrated Management System (TIMS), hosted on its website.
Mr Meja said the system now allows commercial banks to view their financed assets electronically, reducing incidents of fraud.
In September last year, insurance fraud investigators busted a cartel of con artists who were using fake car logbooks to swindle insurers out of millions of shillings.
The cartel, suspected to consist of about 10 scammers, had managed to infiltrate the NTSA’s online database, compromising the integrity of vehicle registration details.
The National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) has announced plans to introduce electronic logbooks to curb vehicle ownership related fraud.
Director-general Francis Meja said the move was part of the bid to improve information sharing through its online register, the Transport Integrated Management System (TIMS), hosted on its website.
“We are currently reviewing the option of having electronic logbooks that can be easily verified through the system and also seeing how the system can be integrated with insurance firms to know who actually has insured their vehicle,” he said in a statement.
Mr Meja said the system now allows commercial banks to view their financed assets electronically, reducing incidents of fraud.
“TIMS has incorporated a component that now helps banks conduct quick online searches thus eliminating fraudsters from the lending market,” said Mr Meja.
He did not give the timelines of the planned launch of the electronic logbooks.
In September last year, insurance fraud investigators busted a cartel of con artists who were using fake car logbooks to swindle insurers out of millions of shillings.
The cartel, suspected to consist of about 10 scammers, had managed to infiltrate the NTSA’s online database, compromising the integrity of vehicle registration details.
“We inherited a weak system from KRA (Kenya Revenue Authority) but that is changing after we migrated services online with a robust system,” said Mr Meja last September.
The NTSA, which took over the role of registering vehicles from KRA in 2012, has migrated the logbooks database to TIMS that is now the exclusive channel through which car owners originate and execute transfers.
Fraudsters on the prowl target banks with forge car documents to borrow loans. The forgery also exposes unsuspecting genuine car owners, whose details have been duplicated by the cartel, to run-ins with the police.
Mr Meja had earlier said one of the safeguards put in the online vehicle registration database is that once ownership of a vehicle changes hands the owner immediately receives an alert on their phones.
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