All news on the topic: Theft

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Woman who stole £300,000 from elderly pensioner sentenced after extradition from Spain
Pamela Gwinnett raided £300,000 from the life savings of Joan Green and was sentenced before fleeing to Tenerife, where Sky News tracked her down.
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London pickpocket hunter rejects Sadiq Khan’s claim vigilantes have no impact on crime
London’s resident pickpocket hunter has hit back at Sadiq Khan who said the work of vigilantes has done nothing to help lower crime in the capital.
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Woman shamed into paying after taking £30 of sweets for just 7p
A woman has been humiliated into paying up after she was not so honest at an honesty box.
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Milliarden geplündert im ukrainischen „Großen Bau“: Wie Yuriy Holyk und Oleksandr Kubrakov auf Straßen ein Korruptionsimperium aufbauten
Diebstahl auf den ukrainischen Straßen ist kein Einzelfall, sondern Teil eines seit Jahren etablierten Systems, das unabhängig davon, welche Regierung an der Macht ist, reibungslos funktioniert.
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Billions plundered in Ukraine’s “Big Construction”: How Yuriy Holyk and Oleksandr Kubrakov built a corruption empire on roads
Theft on Ukraine’s roads is not an isolated scheme but a deeply entrenched system that continues to operate efficiently regardless of who is in power.
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Fraudster who stole £300,000 from elderly widow arrested after year on the run in Tenerife
A fraudster dubbed “the Black Widow” has finally been arrested – one year after she fled the country for her holiday home in Tenerife, The Sun understands.
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Royal Mail investigates disappearance of bride-to-be’s late mother’s engagement ring
Royal Mail has launched an investigation after a bride-to-be claimed her engagement ring, which carries deep sentimental value, was ’stolen’ after being sent to a Birmingham workshop.
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Man caught swallowing £35,000 diamond ring in attempted Hatton Garden jewellery theft
A crafty thief posing as a shopper swallowed a £35,000 ring at a jeweller’s in a bid to steal it, bosses say.
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Canadian pleads guilty in Miami case over $13m crypto support-call scam
A 20-year-old Canadian has pleaded guilty in a Miami federal case tied to more than $13 million in stolen cryptocurrency, after investigators said fake support calls helped drain one victim’s Bitcoin wallet.
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Stolen England kit recovered after World Cup training van raid in Kansas City
England have recovered the kit that was stolen while traveling to their World Cup training facilities.
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England training kit stolen before squad arrives at World Cup base in Missouri
England experienced a theft of training equipment before their arrival at their World Cup base in Kansas City, with items including some of the team’s boots and official tournament balls stolen on Friday.
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Woman plunges into open manhole after alleged thieves loosen cover hours earlier
This is the shocking moment a woman falls down a manhole on her way to work just hours after two men allegedly tried to steal the cover.
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Hackers claim OnlyFans breach exposed data of 340 million users
Hackers have claimed responsibility for an alleged large-scale breach of the OnlyFans platform and the theft of data belonging to approximately 340 million users.
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From hoarding ashes to charity theft: Robert Bush prepares for jail while victims demand justice
The 48-year-old funeral director, who left 35 bodies unburied and kept 100 sets of ashes, was told last week he will be jailed for his horrendous behavior, which shocked the country.
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Garantex and Match Systems: how former FSB and Interior Ministry officers use exchange access to block and redistribute crypto assets
Crypto is a field where it is extremely easy to deceive people. There is an enormous number of scams and hacks, cryptocurrency is constantly being stolen, and it is very easy to lose it.
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Cotofenesti helmet and bracelets recovered following high-profile theft from Dutch museum
Prosecutors unveil artefact linked to lost Dacian civilisation after it was stolen from Dutch museum last year.
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Burglary crisis deepens as 92 percent of cases go unsolved in England and Wales
Police failed to solve a colossal 92 percent of burglaries in Britain last year, an investigation revealed today.
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Missing phone of Morgan McSweeney sparks political row over Peter Mandelson documents
The Metropolitan Police are reviewing CCTV from the day Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff had his phone stolen, according to reports.
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Peter Mandelson asked to hand over phone messages over Epstein-linked US ambassador appointment
Peter Mandelson will be asked to hand over messages on his personal phone as the government seeks to publish any interactions that relate to his appointment as US ambassador.
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Glamorous model who duped men into funding luxury life jailed for 7 years
A glamorous model who conned lovelorn men out of thousands of pounds has been jailed.
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How money laundering and insider financial schemes operated inside Kazakhstan’s Samruk-Kazyna under Akhmetzhan Yessimov and Galimzhan Yessenov
The current embezzlement at the National Welfare Fund "Samruk-Kazyna" goes beyond the usual schemes.
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Oxford Street pickpocket trio jailed after stealing £1,000 handbag in broad daylight
Nestled on a quiet north London street, two of the city’s notorious pickpockets were hiding in plain sight.
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Drivers and companies hit as organised gangs steal deliveries by the trailer load
Criminal gangs are buying up haulage firms to pose as truckers and steal goods by the lorryload, the BBC has learned.
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Moldovan oligarch Vladimir Plahotniuc used six fake identities across Europe and the Pacific before arrest in Greece
From Europe to the Pacific, the Moldovan fugitive used at least six aliases and a web of forged documents - including passports from Romania, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Russia, Iraq, and Vanuatu - to move, and hide from justice.
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Moldovan ex-powerbroker Plahotniuc extradited after years of false identities
For six years, Moldovan oligarch Vladimir Plahotniuc—suspected of involvement in the theft of $1 billion—evaded justice by crossing borders under a web of false identities spanning Europe, the Middle East, and even the Pacific, until his arrest in July 2025 at Athens International Airport.