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International credit card fraud syndicate active in Europe and Asia disrupted

A total of 105 suspects have been arrested as the result of a complex investigation run simultaneously in Europe and Asia with the support of Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3).
During the operation led against an organised criminal group (OCG) responsible for producing and using counterfeit credit cards for purchasing of high value goods, 29 arrests took place in Malaysia and 76 all over Europe…..

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Police hunt thieves who robbed Sydney Montblanc store

TWO men managed to get away with $80,000 worth of luxury watches and an undisclosed sum of cash in a “well-planned and well-executed” heist in the heart of Sydney’s CBD.

Police are hunting the two men who robbed Montblanc luxury accessories store on King St in record time, evading an unmarked police car before crashing into another car and then parking the getaway vehicle — a high powered sports car — in an underground carpark and calmly walking away undetected……

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Police hunt car following armed robbery on Manchester jewellers

Greater Manchester Police are appealing for the public’s help to trace a car they believe was used in an armed robbery on a jewellery store in Rusholme.
Shortly before 1:50pm on Sunday 12 June 2016 two men got out of a black BMW 5 series and smashed the windows of Royal Jewellers on Wilmslow Road, using a sledgehammer and a street grid…..

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Five jailed over £7m Monopoly money scam on jewellery stores

A gang of conmen who used Monopoly money to trick jewellery store owners as part of a £7m scam have been sent to jail for a combined total of 22 years.
The sentencing follows an investigation into organised frauds, including an elaborate fraud in Bristol where a jeweller lost £420,000 worth of diamonds, diamond rings and watches, another in London where a jeweller was defrauded £6.1m, a £250,000 theft in Wiltshire and a £200,000 theft in Leeds……

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FBI Holding Forum on Diamond Money Laundering

The event aims at stopping diamonds from being used in terrorist financing. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in conjunction with Europol, Interpol, the National Police of the Netherlands, the U.S. State Dept., and the World Customs Organization, is sponsoring a two-day event on the role diamonds play in money laundering and terrorist financing.

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FBI Offers $10,000 Reward for Strip Jewelry Armed Robbery Suspects

LAS VEGAS (KXNT) – A $10,000 federal reward is now offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of five men behind an armed jewelry store robbery earlier this month, according the FBI’s Las Vegas Division.

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Pavilion jewellery store robbed

Durban – Security guards dived for cover when confronted by AK-47-wielding robbers during a closing time heist at Westville’s Pavilion Shopping Centre. Four men forced their way into Beverley Jewellers at about 6pm on Wednesday, said a witness.

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Wafi Mall Dh14.7 million heist: ‘Pink Panther’ in Dubai court

One member of gang denies involvement in court. One of the accused involved in an infamous Dh14.7 million heist at Dubai’s Wafi Mall in 2007, who was handed over to Dubai Police by Spanish authorities, appeared before the Dubai Criminal Court.

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Swindlers who bought designer watches and jewellery with Monopoly money are sent to prison

A GANG of fraudsters who paid for watches, jewellery and diamonds worth some £600,000 with Monopoly money have been jailed for 16 years.

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Retail crime cost UK retailers over £2.34bn in 2015

Crime cost UK retailers more than £2.34bn last year, according to the recent UK Retail Fraud Survey 2016 published by Retail Knowledge.
Launched at the Retail Risk conference and sponsored by WIS International, the survey found that employee theft was identified as the single biggest cause, with 68% of retailers citing it as their top area of loss……

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