BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. — A new lawsuit has been filed in Broward County, revealing more than 30 exotic cars that disappeared from an auto group in Boca Raton are now with the group’s landlord, who claims he owns the cars and the group never had the right to sell them.
“There is a scam happening,” Frederick Hall told WPTV.
“I’ve never felt so violated in my life,” Chad Zakin said.
Contact 5 spoke with Hall and Zakin in early April when their $400,000 Lamborghinis vanished from Excell Auto Group in Boca Raton.
“It’s gonna be a real big involvement of a lot of owners, cars,” Hall said.
Hall’s vehicle allegedly vanished while it was having routine maintenance work done at Excell’s body shop.
Zakin told WPTV he brought his vehicle to Excell Auto to have it appraised. He claims Excell then sold it.
That same week, the owners of Excell Auto Group, Scott and Kristen Zankl, filed for bankruptcy.
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Their landlord, Auto Wholesale of Boca, owned by Moshe Farache, then filed a lawsuit against the Zankls in Palm Beach County, saying the Zankls owe him more than $2 million.
“We’re dealing with massive fraud,” Jay Farrow, Farache’s attorney, told WPTV. “South Florida, unfortunately, is a shady place with some shady people.”
Farrow spoke with Contact 5 on Thursday in Broward County, where…
