Last updated on December 8th, 2022 at 02:35 pm
They replaced smartphones in boxes with “other things”
In Spain, an entire criminal syndicate was opened that was involved in the theft of iPhone from an Amazon logistics warehouse located in the center of Madrid. Five employees of the company tried to deceive the system in a rather primitive way: they simply opened the boxes with the iPhone 12 and replaced smartphones in them with “other things.” How long this scheme worked is not reported, but the damage is estimated at over a half million dollars! That is, the account goes to about four hundred stolen smartphones.
Five Amazon workers stole iPhone 12 smartphones worth over a half million dollars
Several items recovered from the suspects included ten stolen iPhone 12s and a large number of brochures with IMEI numbers, apparently stolen from phone boxes. The covert video surveillance system made it possible to calculate the members of the criminal group – it was contacted during an internal investigation after significant discrepancies in the mass of several boxes with smartphones were discovered.
One of the suspects voluntarily reported to the police, the other was arrested right at the workplace. The rest were detained outside of working hours. All five men have already been fired from Amazon and will soon be brought to trial.
