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Antwerp and Rotterdam fight the “PIN code fraud”

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Rotterdam, Netherlands (Ports Europe) October 16, 2024 – Europe’s two largest container ports – Netherlands’ Rotterdam and Belgium’s Antwerp introduced new systems to prevent organised crime gangs from paying corrupt insiders for key shipping codes to steal containers with hidden caches of drugs, mostly cocaine. Criminals had taken advantage of the widespread sharing of unique…

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