An organised crime gang was behind ‘industrial scale’ theft of phones being shipped to China, Met Police say

BBC News is given access to what the Met Police says is the UK's largest operation against mobile phone thefts.

An organised crime gang was behind ‘industrial scale’ theft of phones being shipped to China, Met Police say

Officers arrest 46 suspects in largest clampdown on mobile theft in the UK

British police say they have disrupted a criminal network suspected of smuggling up to 40,000 stolen mobile phones to China in the past year.

London police said it has dismantled a smuggling gang and seized thousands of stolen cell phones. They arrested 18 people, including 15 for robberies.