Up to 4.5 years in prison demanded for ‘inside job’ with millions of loot at a company near Schiphol

Two 34-year-old Hoofddorp employees of the transport company on Rangoonweg played a crucial role in the robbery. On the night of June 4 or 5, they signaled that the coast was clear, after which two trucks could enter the site to steal the electronics.

The trucks were then loaded with forty pallets of electronics, such as smartphones, drones and action cameras, worth approximately two and a half million dollars. The suspects are also said to have taken dozens of boxes of garden lighting that night. They were found three months later in a warehouse on an industrial estate in Beverwijk.

“It concerns a tightly planned, professionally executed theft,” the Public Prosecution Service claims. According to the public prosecutor, everything was prepared down to the last detail. According to the Public Prosecution Service, the organization of the theft was the responsibility of three men from Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Heerhugowaard. They would have set up a private company, bought trucks, viewed and rented storage space, maintained contact with the healer and administered the costs.

Text continues below the video of the surveillance images at Schiphol.

The sixth suspect, a 31-year-old man from IJmuiden, is said to have ensured that the stolen loot was shipped to Dubai. He was also sentenced to 57 months in prison, but for money laundering and fencing.

Way of life

During the investigation by the Royal Military Police, the suspects were tapped and their encrypted messages were cracked. “They dismiss their criminal actions as apparently routine, as a ‘way of life’,” the prosecutor said. In addition, witnesses testified about the purchase of trucks used in the theft.