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The
high-security building housing Interpol's South Africa office has been burgled
for the fifth time in three weeks, report Times Live.
The
thieves made off with laptops, cameras and other electronics, and in one
incident they may have entered the building using internal access cards, the Times Live website reports. A spokesman for Hawks, the anti-corruption unit
that suffered the break-in, confirmed the incident but added: "At this
stage it does not appear to be serious."
Police
think the burglars want the expensive equipment. "The people involved in
the first burglary may be involved in the latest incident," says police
spokesman Solomon Makgale. "It is highly unlikely that those behind the
burglaries are interested in the information contained on the laptops but are
rather more interested in making quick cash."
But
a crime intelligence source says the repeated break-ins could be a sign the
thieves are looking for specific information - and simply haven't found it yet.
Police say that some laptops stolen in the first burglary have surfaced in a
local pawn shop.
Criminologist Rudolph Zinn
says he's concerned that serial break-ins were possible in the first place, and
that Interpol could respond by limiting what information employees in South
Africa can access. "If it's this easy to break into this building multiple
times one needs to ask what other unauthorised access has occurred," he
says.
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