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00:00It's being called London's largest mobile phone smuggling operation,
00:07a network so vast it helped earn the city the recent nickname,
00:10The Pickpocket Capital.
00:12But now the gang is in police custody.
00:14So how did it all fall apart?
00:20The story began when one victim managed to track his stolen phone,
00:23leading police to a large warehouse near Heathrow Airport
00:26used by the gang as a storage hub.
00:28When officers raided the site, they discovered a shipment
00:31containing more than 890 stolen devices.
00:39Investigators revealed the gang was smuggling around 40,000 phones abroad every year.
00:44The breakthrough prompted a city-wide crackdown,
00:47with London police raiding 28 properties across different districts
00:50and arresting 18 people of various nationalities,
00:53including Afghan, Indian and Bulgarian suspects.
00:58Initial findings showed that these stolen phones were being sold in Hong Kong
01:04for as much as $5,000 each,
01:07while each individual pickpocket earned about $400 per theft.
01:11Although I'm back then is driving around trying to help.
01:14I'm driving around trying to help.
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