"An international gang suspected of smuggling up to 40,000 stolen phones from the UK to China over the past 12 months has been dismantled by police in London. The criminal network is allegedly responsible for up to 40 percent of all phones stolen in the city during this period, according to the Metropolitan Police service, which described the crackdown as its "largest ever operation to tackle phone theft in London.""
"The investigation was launched last year after a victim traced their stolen iPhone to a warehouse near Heathrow Airport, which was discovered in a box containing around a thousand iPhones being shipped to Hong Kong. The intercepted shipment led to "significant arrests" and the recovery of stolen devices, according to the police announcement, with phone theft down by 14 percent in London so far this year."
Police in London dismantled an international criminal network suspected of smuggling up to 40,000 stolen mobile phones from the UK to China over the past year. The group is alleged to have been responsible for as much as 40 percent of phone thefts in the city during that period. The probe began after a victim traced a stolen iPhone to a warehouse near Heathrow, where around a thousand iPhones were found bound for Hong Kong. The interception produced significant arrests and recoveries, and reported phone theft in London has fallen by 14 percent so far this year. Investigators found the gang specifically targeted Apple devices, with street thieves paid up to £300 per handset and evidence of resale values up to $5,000 in China.
Read at The Verge
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