In Italy, some couriers who thought they were above the law stole iPhone 4 terminals that should have been delivered to certain customers following orders made on online stores. The couriers were working for DHL Express and it seems that they were stealing the terminals ordered from outside Italy, as if they were from customers reach most likely just empty boxes. The stolen terminals were resold through online auction sites, the couriers earning no less than €20.000 as a result of these transactions. It seems that the problem has existed for a long time, but the Italian prosecutors managed to expose the network that deals with these thefts and a good part of its members are already in custody.
Bologna, April 15 – Iphone 4, worth about 20,000 euros, business and never delivered, sold online with ads posted on Florence and Arezzo. Police Communications dell'Emilia Romagna, coordinated by the Public Prosecutor of the Prosecutor Ambosino Domenico in Bologna, has denounced the charge of shipping carriers and their accomplices who were in charge of selling stolen equipment. The two in charge of sorting and distribution in Bologna and Arezzo – PP, 48, resident in the province of Bologna, and PM, 41 years, residing in Laterina (Ar) – will have to answer for aggravated theft, three other accomplices in stolen – FM, 26, of the province of Bologna, BD, 30, Montevarchi (Ar), and NM, 37, of Arezzo. Also three customers in trouble, accused of reckless purchase instead: they had not bothered to check the consistency 'between the real value of the asset and the actual sales. Perquisite, between Bologna and Arezzo, the residence of the carriers, acting on behalf of a cooperative that provides transport services for external goods on behalf of the courier DHL Express Italy. Apple Iphone 4 sequestered many apparatuses, systems and technology such as portable hard drives. The management of DHL Express Italy, pending developments in the investigation, has cut off all relations with the carriers under investigation. The total number of recovered equipment to several thousand euros.
Unfortunately, things like this happen to us. The other day, a friend told me that from a package with some iPad 2 tablets sent to Romania, some pieces miraculously disappeared before the package was picked up from the Post Office. He does not know where exactly they disappeared and whose fault it is, it is certain that somewhere along the way someone walked in the package and stole the goods.
