LONDON—About 23,000 high-end Samsung A300 mobile phones valued at approximately $6 million disappeared from a warehouse in West London this week.
Police believe the handsets were stolen by thieves with inside information on the warehouse and will likely end up on the black market. But the phones did not include SIM cards and have been deactivated through international serial numbers programmed into each handset, so “they will be worthless unless they are reprogrammed illegally,” according to Detective Inspector Morgan O’Grady, who is heading up the inquiry.
Samsung is offering more than $286,000 as a reward for information on the theft.
