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This one is getting close.
Found it on the swedish site garaget.org
Hmm - Swedish was suggested v early on, but it's the space then extra digit at the end that confuses
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Hi all. Walked past the van again yesterday evening - just so you can see it wasn't a hoax! https://youtu.be/FOzNkRFVkmA
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But............

If the van in your picture/video is the same as the one on the photo posted by me then there are two strange things.
One is the extra 8 in the end and the other is that according to a swedish website that vehicle is listed out of traffic since september 2021

There it also states that it has had 9 owners since 2007

And of course the absence of any country code or mot sticker
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Indeed, based on that evidence it's 99.999% someone cloning a plate from a similar-looking vehicle they found online to evade speeding/congestion charge cameras in the UK.
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Wow, Rognv - the SAME number (and who knows, maybe even the same vehicle) plus an 8 at the end.

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according to a swedish website that vehicle is listed out of traffic since september 2021
I am assuming 'out of traffic' means the same thing as SORN. Something I posted on this forum about years ago, pre-Brexit, was regarding SORN-ing my UK-registered Landcruiser when I was travelling ie once outside the EU with a vehicle registered in an EU member state, was it OK to do this; the consensus on this forum was yes. Presumably, prior to Brexit it would have been illegal for the owner of this VW to SORN it in Sweden and then use it in the UK being another EU member state at the time, but now that Sweden remains in the EU whereas the UK doesn't.......

Turbofurball / AnTyx - yes, bearing in mind the - ahem - demographics of that general area, your theories may well be correct.
I won't personally do anything about it as the owner of that vehicle has done nothing to upset me, but one wonders what the police would say about it if they were made aware. Although it's a fairly busy road, so they probably drive past it all the time.
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