CARGO CRIME DATA


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The number of incidents may be bad but the downward trend for the past two years shows Brazil is continuing to achieve its goal of tackling the country's cargo theft epidemic…


The ‘Cargo Theft – Criminal Org Chart’ produced by law enforcement agencies in Brazil has a formidable look about it. But for the types of players involved and the nature of their activities, the approach and processes resemble those of most international supply chains.


In this case, however, the ‘buyers’ are the resellers of stolen goods who place their ‘orders’ on a daily basis. The ‘sourcing’ is done by offenders who know how and where to identify the goods required, and the ‘transport providers’ are very often drugs dealers who rent out weapons, vehicles and tools to cargo thieves, to facilitate the ‘pick-up’.


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