Pickpocket robbers made £5million stealing London Underground passengers' phones

A pickpocket gang have been jailed for a total of 30 years after amassing more than £5 million pounds - by stealing mobile phones. The gang of 11 thieves worked strict 'office hours' between 2pm and 10pm, earning almost £10,000 a day nabbing mobile phones from commuters on the London Underground. see photos of the gang.

British Transport police discovered that Nawid Moshfiq was identified as "the boss" behind the thefts.

More than 100 officers raided private properties and businesses where more than a thousand smart phones and £143,000 were seized.

At one address, officers seized more than £23,000 which had been hidden in different rooms of the house, including inside a child's jacket.

 

 

 

 

Police believe the gang made around £5 million selling their ill-gotten gains.

Operation Park, which began almost two-and-a-half years ago, resulted in the 11 being sentenced over two trials with conspiracy to handle stolen goods and money laundering offences.

Ringleader Moshfiq, 39, from Brentford, Essex, was sentenced to five years behind bars for conspiracy to handle stolen goods, three years for money laundering and 18 months for possession of criminal property, running concurrently.