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Startups are fighting thieves by putting your Rolex on the blockchain

Paris-based startup Arianee wants to fight theft by putting luxury goods on the blockchain. But will it work? And is it good business?

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Thieves take €80,000 worth of jewellery from Limassol shop

Jewellery worth €80,000 was stolen from a jewellery shop early on Thursday morning. Limassol police chief Yiannis Soteriades said that the force believes the theft was the work of a known criminal gang.

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„Pljačka veka“ u Srbiji: Iz Bora nestalo skoro 900 kg zlata

Iz pogona za dobijanje plemenitih metala „Zlatara“, iz sastava nekadašnjeg RTB-a, od 1. januara 2014. do 1. aprila 2017. nestalo je skoro 900 kilograma zlata.

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Ransforsøk hos eksklusiv urmaker i Oslo sentrum

Maskerte ranere med våpen forsøkte å ta seg inn i butikken. Det var like etter klokken 14 mandag at den eksklusive urmakeren Urmaker Bjerke i Nedre Slottsgate ble forsøkt ranet av maskerte ranere med våpen.

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WATCH: Seven arrested in raids targeting organised crime gang

Seven people have today been arrested as part of an investigation into an organised criminal gang. The gang is believed to be responsible for thefts and burglaries committed over the last year totalling more than £1 million. The offences, committed across north Lancashire and northern England, include high value commercial plant theft, stealing ATMs and cash in transit thefts, as well as burglaries at domestic properties.

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£1m fraudsters who funded notorious Nigerian organised crime gang convicted

Three siblings who were working directly for the leader of a notorious Nigerian crime gang have been convicted of laundering nearly £1m for the Black Axe organised crime syndicate through UK bank accounts. Okemiorukaye Nakpodia, 56, was found guilty of conspiracy to money launder at Woolwich Crown Court today (8 May 2019). Esther Nakpodia, 35, Unuakpotovo Nakpodia, 46, both pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing.

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CRYPTOCURRENCY LAUNDERING AS A SERVICE: MEMBERS OF A CRIMINAL ORGANISATION ARRESTED IN SPAIN

Europol has supported Spain in dismantling a criminal organisation providing large-scale crypto money laundering services to other criminal organisations.

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DEEPDOTWEB SHUT DOWN: ADMINISTRATORS SUSPECTED OF RECEIVING MILLIONS OF KICKBACKS FROM ILLEGAL DARK WEB PROCEEDS

The two suspected administrators of a website known as DeepDotWeb have been arrested on 6 May 2019 in Paris, France and Israel. Authorities in the US have charged the two individuals after an internationally coordinated operation today, supported by Europol. At the same time, the DeepDotWeb website was seized by law enforcement and judicial authorities.

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G4S security guard ‚flees with £1m from cash-in-transit van he abandoned in residential London street‘

A security guard reportedly disappeared with £1 million after abandoning his G4S cash-in-transit van in south-west London. The driver is said to have fled with 40 deposit boxes and left the vehicle in a residential street in Clapham on Tuesday.

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FAKE CARRIER SCAM: 6 ARRESTED IN ROMANIA AND THE NETHERLANDS

On 17 April 2019, some 400 police officers from the Romanian Directorate for Investigation of Organised Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) and the Dutch National Police, with the support of Europol and Eurojust, swooped on suspects in both these countries believed to be part of an organised crime group involved in fake carrier fraud.

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