Police bust is suspected of stealing 40,000 phones

An international gang suspected of smuggling up to 40,000 stolen phones from the United Kingdom to China over the past 12 months by the police in London. It is claimed that the criminal network is responsible for up to 40 percent of all stolen phones in the city during this period, according to what he said. Urban police serviceThe campaign was described as “the biggest operation ever to treat the theft of the phone in London.”

BBC News Reports that the investigation was launched last year after it followed the stolen IPhone victim to a warehouse near Heathrow Airport, which was discovered in a box containing about a thousand iPhone that is shipped to Hong Kong. The usual shipment led to “major arrests” and the restoration of stolen devices, according to the police declaration, with the steal of the phone decreased by 14 percent in London so far this year.

“This group targeted Apple products specifically because of their profit abroad,” Inspector Mark Gavin said in a statement. “We discovered that the thieves in the streets were paid to 300 pounds (about $ 403) for each phone and revealed evidence of the sale of devices for up to $ 5,000 in China.”

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