Scotland Yard praised a ‘brilliant’ Daily Mail investigation after three members of a phone smuggling network admitted their role in a £180million trafficking operation.
The gang was responsible for almost half the phones stolen in London at the peak of their powers – and sent thousands of devices to the same high-rise block in Hong Kong that was infiltrated by Mail reporters in July last year.
This newspaper traced stolen phones from the streets of central London, through suburban British warehouses, before they landed in the international markets of Dubai, Hong Kong and, ultimately, China.
And this week, Amir Muhammad Khadikhel, Ismat Miakhel,
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