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hide garments on their person or in their backpacks to remove them from the site at the end of their shifts. Police officers, alerted to the losses, searched the suspects’ homes and recovered €300,000 worth of stolen goods. Four other members of staff were being sought as part of the police investigation.
€275,000 – Jewellery & gold
crime was the biggest cash-in-transit heist in the country’s history. One article commented: “In a country with severe cash shortages, and where people queue for days at banks, this is an eye-watering sum to lose.”
€1,000,000 – Miscellaneous goods
On 2 February, police in Saint-Aybert, France, arrested 13 offenders suspected of breaking into trucks and stealing goods worth more than €1m. The gang were believed to have been active since October 2020. During searches, investigators found numerous pallets of food, household electronics, cosmetics, shoes, bicycles and electric scooters.
€695,095 – Car parts
On 29 January, offenders in South Africa’s Western Cape province hijacked a truck and stole 549 boxes of catalytic converters. The vehicle was targeted while waiting at traffic lights as gunmen opened the cab door and threatened the driver. The truck and part of its load were found abandoned in the large township of Kwanobhule. Two suspects were later remanded in custody in Port Elizabeth.
€413,994 - Copper
In another major cargo theft in South Africa, a group of offenders stole trailers carrying a cargo of copper plates from a business in Olifantsfontein in Gauteng province on 6 June before making their escape.
€400,000 - Cigarettes
A truck driver and his assistant waiting to deliver a shipment of cigarettes to a Destination Facility in Vienne, France, on 30 March were targeted by four offenders and
forced to move the truck to a dead end road, next to a waiting van. The driver and assistant were then instructed to transfer the cargo into the van before the offenders torched the delivery truck and escaped.
€300,000 – Luxury clothing
This loss report to TAPA’s IIS stated the arrests of four staff working in a logistics facility in Nogarole Rocca, in the Italian region of Veneto, on 19 May, connected to thefts of luxury clothing. The employees would allegedly
This Last Mile cargo crime involved the violent robbery of a delivery vehicle transporting jewellery and gold after three offenders with firearms carried out an attack in Lyon, France, on 26 March, as the shipment was being transferred to another truck.
€250,000 – Tobacco
On 13 January, offenders wearing hoods and using firearms forced a truck carrying a shipment of tobacco to stop in the town of Buchères in north- central France. The offenders quickly loaded the tobacco products into their vehicle before escaping the scene.
In the €50K-€100K loss category, 10 of the highest value losses featured thefts of:
• €91,629 – 20 tons of clothing stolen from a Services 3rd Party Facility in Moscow on 30 January by a person fraudulently claiming to be the delivery driver;
• €90,000 - At least five armed and masked offenders attacked a cash-in-transit van as it was transferring cash in Canosa di Puglia, Italy, on 23 February;
• €89,628 – On 29 March, 20 tons of tobacco was stolen in St Petersburg, Russia. The driver reportedly unloaded the vehicle at an unauthorised location on the instructions of an unknown person;
• €87,701 – 60 tons of fish was stolen in Russia on 28 January after a driver travelling from Kazakhstan offloaded the cargo in Novosibirsk after being directed to do so by an unknown person;
• €84,000 – in Sandersdorf-Brehna in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt on 24 February, offenders stole 115 bikes after cutting the tarpaulin of a truck in an unclassified parking location on the A9 highway;
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