A LUXURY car stolen from David Beckham in Spain is now an official government vehicle in Macedonia, it was claimed last night.
Becks’ £70,000 armour-plated BMW X5 vanished a year ago from near his home in Madrid.
The former England football captain, 31, was lunching when it was pinched from an underground car park.
But newspapers in Macedonia yesterday published photos of the Interior Minister Gordana Jankulovska in the capital Skopje getting into a car believed to be the stolen 4×4.
Police spokesman Ivo Kotevski said: “Before it reached Macedonia, this vehicle had changed hands 20 times in Spain — so we have no proof that it belonged to Beckham.”
It is believed that professional car thieves started the high- performance vehicle possibly using high-tech software.
The car is thought to have been shipped to Greece before being driven to Macedonia.
Once there, it was seized by police during a raid on a people-smuggling gang in November.
The Macedonian government began using the car as an official vehicle — as nobody came forward to claim it.
Ms Jankulovska stated: “If Beckham asks for the vehicle back, then I will hand him the keys myself.”
Becks, who is leaving Real Madrid to join LA Galaxy in America at the end of the season, has had TWO BMW X5s stolen since moving to the Spanish capital in 2003.
Last October a £100,000 4×4 was stolen from a street near the player’s £5 million home in La Moraleja, on the outskirts of Madrid.
