The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) has established a temporary and flexible arrangement with the Customs Division to enable owners of vehicles affected by its clone-detection exercise to regularise their vehicles and settle outstanding import duty payments.
The DVLA Chief Executive Officer, Julius Neequaye Kotey, disclosed this in a Facebook post on Tuesday, August 25, 2026, following the authority’s deployment of clone-detection systems in its vehicle verification and registration processes.
According to Mr Kotey, the arrangement is intended to assist affected vehicle owners to regularise their vehicles and clear outstanding import duties following the identification of vehicles suspected to have been cloned or brought into the country through channels designed to evade import duties.
The DVLA has so far intercepted and seized more than 130 suspected cloned or duty-evading vehicles following the introduction of the new detection systems.
Mr Kotey explained that the authority has integrated clone-detection machines, known as OBD II scanners, into its vehicle verification and registration processes.
He said the scanners are capable of identifying vehicles brought into Ghana through unapproved channels that unlawfully duplicate the Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) of legitimate vehicles awaiting registration.
According to him, the technology is helping to address cases where owners of legitimately imported vehicles are wrongly flagged in the system as having already registered their vehicles because their VINs have been fraudulently duplicated.
Mr Kotey said the deployment of the scanners was a proactive security measure aimed at improving the accuracy, integrity and reliability of Ghana’s national vehicle register.
He added that the collaboration with the Customs Division provides affected owners with an opportunity to resolve outstanding import duty obligations and regularise their vehicles in accordance with the law.
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