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INCIDENT DATA


AUGUST CRIME DATA SHOWS A SECOND CONSECUTIVE MONTH OF RISING LOSS VALUES TO €13.8 MILLION AND A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN TOBACCO THEFTS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM


The combined value of cargo losses from supply chains in EMEA recorded a second dramatic year-on-year increase in August 2018, according to incidents reported to TAPA’s Incident Information Service (IIS).


Following a 299.3% rise in July to €15.8 million, thefts in August produced a total loss of €13,881,505, a 182.7% increase over the figure of €4.9m in the same month of 2017. This resulted in an average loss for the 90.9% of thefts with a value of €81,178.


The eight major cargo crimes reported to TAPA’s IIS in the EMEA region last month produced a combined loss of €9,652,272 or an average per theft of €1,206,534. Additionally, intelligence was recorded on 25 further incidents with loss values of between €50,000 and €100,000, which accounted for €1,690,450 of August’s overall total, averaging €67,618 for each crime.


The total number of thefts from supply chains in the region in August rose 30.5% year-on- year to 188 in a month once again dominated by incident reports from the United Kingdom.


August saw three cargo thefts reported with seven-figure loss values:


€5,000,000


A truck driver was stopped by an armed assailant just after loading his vehicle with a cargo of electronics products at an Origin Facility in the Amsterdam Airport Schiphol area on 14 August. The suspect forced him to drive off the


€2,221,628


Fraud and a Deceptive Pick-up were recorded in the second seven-figure loss of the month. A transport company, which had been reportedly sourced online, agreed to collect and deliver the shipment of computer networking products from a business located in Normanton, West Yorkshire, in the UK.K. However, the fake carrier and the cargo subsequently disappeared on 17 August afterst af er the pick-up.


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€1,000,000 An M.O. of Internal was reported after


cigarettes were stolen from two trailers left in an unsecured parking location in


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Loire-Atlantique in western France. According to the intelligence report, the entire load of one trailer was stolen as well as part of the second trailer’ cargo af er they were left in a parking lot o


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as part of the second trailer’s cargo after they were left in a parking lot over a weekend. The incident was reported to TAPA’s IIS on 20 August.


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premises onto the public road and stop. The driver was then tied up and forced into the boot of a car before being released later, but the vehicle and its cargo have not been seen since.


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