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A “Industrial scale” phone snatching network is considered behind one of the four theft in London Deal with the wave of crime.
The gang suspects smuggling up to 40,000 Stolen phone About 40 percent of all the phones stolen in the capital in the last one year – from the UK to China.
A year -long investigation by spies Metropolitan Police Trys to return to London’s reputation as a phone that snatches the capital of Europe.
In the 30s, two people, who were known as “theme Heron” and “theme Sagal”, were arrested last month and sent to custody on suspicion of handling stolen goods.
The authorities capture him after highlighting a shipment of a thousand iPhones, which was incorrectly marked as a battery on the shipping manifest documents, which was being sent to Hong Kong at Heathro Airport last December.
Almost all the equipment were stolen and wrapped as a temporary Faraday bag in the tinfil.
In a major investigation known as Operation Ecostip, the detectives intercepted further shipments and were able to connect packages to two men.
After his arrest, more phones were found in his car and 2,000 more equipment was discovered on assets associated with suspects.
The investigation also highlighted a network of road-level criminals involved in theft and robbery and the police have made 15 arrests on suspicion of theft, conspiring to handle and steal the stolen goods.
Overall, Bal has made 46 arrests during two weeks of action in the capital to target phone thieves, including executing 49 search warrants.
Commander Andrew Federestone, Met lead to deal with phone theft, said that the stolen handset is being sent abroad abroad, saying: “This operation was targeting those people to earn huge amounts of money to organized criminals and make it their own.”
Most of the devices being targeted are iPhone 12 to 16 models, for which thieves can pocket £ 300 per stolen devices. Once sent to China and Hong Kong, they can change hands for $ 5,000, police believe.
He said, “This is the biggest crack on mobile phone theft and robbery in the UK in the most extraordinary set of such operations, which Mate has ever done,” he said.
“We have destroyed criminal networks at every level from road-level thieves to international organized crime groups, which export thousands of stolen equipment every year.”
However, he asked the phone manufacturers for more help to help in theft by presenting those characteristics, meaning that a stolen device can be disabled from a distance and can never be reused.
Commander Federstone said: “We know that there is technology. Because, as an example, if the Apple Store phones are stolen directly from the Apple Store, Apple has no problem blocking those phones and is never used to see them.
“So software should exist, so it becomes an option why they do not want to use it. So why don’t they want to do what is a question for them.”
Senior Investigating Officer Detective Inspector Mark Gavin, Senior Investigating Officer of Operation Ecustep, said that his team usually focuses on firearms and drug imports.
He said, “But it quickly became clear that it was not a low -level road crime, it was on an industrial scale,” he said, “There is a victim behind the phone stolen phone, which included many people, when his phone was snatched away.
London Mayor, Sadiq Khan, said the operation was the largest of its kind in the history of Britain, but warned that the police alone could not deal with the theft of the phone.
He said, “Criminals are making millions by rebuilding stolen phones and selling them abroad, many are still capable of reaching cloud services,” he said.
“It is just very easy and very beneficial. I will continue calling the mobile phone industry so that the stolen equipment was useless and difficult to design this crime.
“We need coordinated global action to close this business and create a safe London for all.”
Crime and Policing Minister, Sara Jones said: “I want to see more than these massive interventions, which is why we are putting more police on the streets and strengthening them with strong powers to track responsibilities and make our roads safe.”