Selangor cops bust foreign iPhone pickpocket syndicate

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A foreign syndicate specialising in pickpocketing iPhones at shopping malls across the Klang Valley has been dismantled following the arrest of four suspects.   Selangor police chief Comm Datuk Hussein Omar Khan said the suspects, including two women aged between 31 and 62, were detained at around noon on Jan 25.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/4ax6dc6v  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00I would also like to share on the success of the police in passing a syndicate involving

00:11the citizens of Vietnam moving to steal cell phones in shopping malls around Lembah Klang,

00:24which acted on information on January 25, 2025, at about 12.30 pm, the police force from

00:33the Criminal Investigation Department of the Central Police Department managed to conduct

00:40an investigation and arrested two men and two women, citizens of foreign countries,

00:47aged between 31 and 61 years old, and managed to steal the items in the case.

00:55The results of the investigation revealed that there was no record of the theft, and the decision

00:59to pour water on them was negative for the crime.

01:04The theft was a total of 13 cell phones involving 8 stolen cell phone cases that were reported.

01:17In 6 areas, namely Sedang, Petaling Jaya, Subang Jaya, Dang Wangi, Ceras, and Sentul,

01:27all were successful in solving the case, while the remaining 5 cell phones were still in the

01:32waste bin to dispose of the victims involved.

01:38This group, led by a 41-year-old woman, entered Malaysia for the first time in December.

01:47They were there for about a week.

01:50During that time, the police managed to detect 8 cases of cell phone theft,

01:56especially iPhone cell phones.

02:01After that, these three returned.

02:04They returned in January, on the 17th of this month.

02:12During that week, they committed the theft in the shopping malls,

02:20and 8 of the thefts were reported to the police.

02:27The rest of the thefts were not reported to the police.

02:31But we believe that these 13 cell phones, 12 of which were iPhone,

02:37were stolen from the victims in the shopping malls, or around the shopping malls.

02:45So they moved to steal these iPhones, and they were taken to Vietnam.

02:55They were from the Vietnamese community, and they were sold there.

03:00Was it for food or to buy food?

03:05In the shopping malls, when the victims were choosing clothes or goods,

03:12they moved in this group of three people.

03:16So they embezzled the victims' attention,

03:21and one of them took the cell phone and gave it to another friend.

03:28So, there were many unaware victims.

03:33And there were victims who embezzled from the shopping mall operators in CCTV,

03:42and only when they realized it, their cell phones were stolen by this group.

03:49Yes, speedpoket syndicate, and they were helped by a citizen of Jordan,

03:57who acted as their transporter, their driver.

04:03So, in all these incidents, it was this man who transported them from one point to another.

04:12But those involved in the activity of stealing, the speedpoket syndicate,

04:16were these three foreigners.

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