{"id":149338,"date":"2026-04-08T22:04:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T22:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149338"},"modified":"2026-04-08T22:04:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T22:04:40","slug":"chile-exposes-smuggling-ring-that-shipped-us917m-in-stolen-copper-to-chinese-buyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149338","title":{"rendered":"Chile exposes smuggling ring that shipped US$917m in stolen copper to Chinese buyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese buyers were the end destination of a five-year smuggling pipeline that drained an estimated US$917 million worth of stolen copper from Chile, authorities said on Wednesday after police dismantled the network in one of the largest organised crime operations ever uncovered in the country.<br \/>\nThe group trucked stolen metal to Iquique, a port city in Chile\u2019s far north, and shipped it to China in containers disguised as scrap cargo. Over the same period, it collected more than US$55 million in&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3349439\/chile-exposes-smuggling-ring-shipped-us917m-stolen-copper-chinese-buyers?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese buyers were the end destination of a five-year smuggling pipeline that drained an estimated US$917 million worth of stolen copper from Chile, authorities&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149338"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}