Months of covert phone monitoring led to £57m gangs downfall

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Months of covert phone monitoring led to £57m gang's downfall

Fourteen members of gang this week jailed for a total of 72 years following audacious museum thefts.

Durham University following one of the raids

Date - 7th April 2016
By - Martin Buhagiar - Police Oracle

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Covert phone monitoring finally led to the conviction of an organised crime gang involved in the theft of artefacts worth up to £57 million. The fourteen-strong gang stole from museums and an auction house and targetted Chinese jade and...

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