Baden-Württemberg: Gang theft: Over 20,000 mobile phones worth millions

Offenburg (dpa/lsw) - Four men are said to have stolen around 20,100 mobile phones worth around 3.

Baden-Württemberg: Gang theft: Over 20,000 mobile phones worth millions

Offenburg (dpa/lsw) - Four men are said to have stolen around 20,100 mobile phones worth around 3.75 million euros from a company warehouse in Offenburg (Ortenaukreis) over a period of almost two years. The accused, aged between 36 and 42, are accused of serious gang theft in 16 cases, as the regional court in Offenburg announced on Tuesday. The trial is expected to begin on October 7th.

The four suspects are accused of having stolen mobile phones from the warehouse of an Offenburg company from December 2016 to October 2018 and then sold them. Two defendants are said to have been employed by the damaged company. It was initially unclear how these thefts could have happened.