A box at the airport helped to reveal the sales network of stolen smartphones

In London sentenced three members of a network that bought stolen phones and smuggled them abroad. According to the Metropolitan police, in 2024-2025, up to 40 thousand vehicles could pass through this network. That's about 40% of the phones stolen in London during that period.

The investigation began with a find at a warehouse near Heathrow Airport. In December 2024, a box of about a thousand iPhones was found there, prepared for shipment to Hong Kong.

Checks showed that almost all devices were stolen. Later, the police intercepted other shipments and on the trail on the packages came to people engaged in sales. During the arrest of two suspects, several hundred phones were found in their car, another two thousand were seized at related addresses.

As reported by the London police, on September 25, the court sentenced 35-year-old Amir Muhammad Khadikhel to nine and a half years in prison, 33-year-old Ismat Miahel to nine years, 30-year-old Mansour Mohammed to six and a half years.

All three pleaded guilty in April. The first two were responsible, among other things, for organizing the removal of the stolen devices; Mohammed’s charge related to their receipt and participation in a criminal group.

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