Lucrative foreign assignments

[fraggle092]

Maybe targeting the UK prior to Brexit....

A Chilean crime network ransacked houses in the UK in 'burglary tourism' wave
Metropolitan Police are searching for the British-based leadership of the South American gang after multi-million-pound raids in London, Wales and Somerset
More than 75 Chilean burglars have been arrested in the past two years in the UK

The gang is thought to be active in several European countries, including Spain, as well as the United States and Canada. The thefts have also been linked to a corruption scandal in the Chilean capital Santiago involving bribes to police.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... llery.html

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7107908/g ... of-pounds/

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news ... -ntgnjqpsq
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https://metro.co.uk/2017/07/13/chilean- ... s-6776828/

[admin]

Do you got any source that is not a british gossip rag?

Who frigen spends thousands of dollars on flying to the other side of the world to rob houses?

[hlf2888]

more money there? no prison industry ready to gobble them up forever like in the US? don't need winter clothes like in Canada? maybe fewer surveillance cameras? or maybe just a little fake news to tweak our realities to the agenda of that corporate media?

[fraggle092]

Who frigen spends thousands of dollars on flying to the other side of the world to rob houses?

Chileans do. Try reading the local press. I personally know of one guy in my town that netted enough cash to live on for a year from his most recent trip. So not fake news and not new news either.

Do you got any source that is not a british gossip rag?

Here you go. Plenty more where those come from.

Delincuentes chilenos acrecientan su fama en Europa: "Son los mejores del mundo

Los lanzas chilenos que se han transformado en “marca” en Europa

‘Lanzas Internacionales’: los nuevos ladrones de casas. Una marca internacional de ladrones compuesta por jóvenes chilenos

https://www.pressreader.com/chile/publi ... 5176476951

etc etc etc

[Britkid]

Metropolitan Police Detective Inspector Tim Court, who is heading the nationwide response, said: “We put the message out to immigration and border force.

“The big question was ‘where is this stuff going?’ We intercepted a series of boxes going back to Chile. Hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of jewellery.”

This is fromthe Sun. Rags like the SUn and the Daily Mail when they are putting things in direct quotation marks from people, are not usually making it up.

If you do want to read such sources, be very careful of the content in general, but focus on what the sources are and what's in quotation marks. If it's an official quote, at least that part of the article is usually legit.

[frozen-north]

This is fromthe Sun. Rags like the SUn and the Daily Mail...

Wikipedia shares your opinion of the Daily Mail.

Wikipedia bans Daily Mail as 'unreliable' source

Online encyclopaedia editors rule out publisher as a reference citing ‘reputation for poor fact checking and sensationalism’

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... or-website

[fraggle092]

Thieves flown into UK from Chile for burglaries

That's from the BBC

Interesting to see that they ship the loot back to Chile. My theory is that even the well-off here have no problems with buying obviously stolen luxury goods.

I think the reason that theft is so widespread here is because there is a ready market for stolen goods. Many people, even quite educated ones who ought to know better turn a blind eye to the origin of items acquired informally.

[admin]

Yea they ran an article on tvn about it with video. 611 chileans arrested simce 2011.