Inside LONDON'S PHONE THEFT CRACKDOWN | UK True CRIME Documentary

Описание: The Phone Thief Who Never Stole a Phone | The Zachary Sinki Case
March 2025. Heathrow customs officers opened a package bound for Algeria and found 170 stolen smartphones, each wrapped in aluminum foil. That discovery exposed one of Britain's most sophisticated criminal networks — and the man who built it had never personally stolen a phone in his life.

Zachary Sinki ran an operation that processed over 5,000 stolen devices in just 18 months. Nine phones every single day. Hundreds of thousands of pounds in profit. A system so compartmentalised that most participants had no idea they were part of an international crime ring.

This wasn't street crime. It was precision logistics.

In this episode of UK True Crime Files, we break down exactly how Sinki's network operated: teenage snatchers on e-bikes, instant signal-blocking with Faraday cages, residential processing centres across North London, biometric banking hacks completed in minutes, and a 48-hour pipeline shipping devices to North Africa.

We follow the devastating timeline of victim Kush Chery, who lost £35,000 in under an hour after his phone was stolen in Soho. We examine the psychological trauma that goes far beyond financial loss. And we investigate why tech giants refuse to implement kill-switch technology that could stop this epidemic overnight.

From the Met Police investigation to the courtroom sentencing, from parliamentary hearings to the global spread of this criminal model across Paris, Barcelona, and Rome — this is the full story of how phone theft became an international industry.

Your phone is more than a device. It's a target. And after watching this, you'll never think about phone security the same way again.

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