300,000 euros in damage is not a small sum, even for the French automobile giant. Who will have taken a year all the same to notice a theft of Wi-Fi terminals.
A couple in their thirties is accused by the diamond brand, which has filed a complaint, of having stolen between 2021 and 2022 nearly 400 Wi-Fi terminals at the Renault Technocentre in Guyancourt, in the Yvelines, reports the Actu.fr site.
The theft took place during work to modernize the computer network of the Technocentre, where Renault’s future cars are being developed.
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Once this first theft was carried out, the couple, hitherto unknown to the police, even took the courage to take away 57 new laptops and their accessories.
So there, you say to yourself, how to trace the trail of thieves and get your hands on the equipment? Well, the police immediately thought of snooping on the leboncoin.fr site. Bingo. An advertisement offered the stolen equipment.
The authentication of the IP address that the thieves used to conceal their equipment made it possible to identify that one of the thieves worked for a Renault service provider on the Guyancourt site.
What to decide on the arrest of the couple on May 24th. In police custody, the police learned that the Wi-Fi terminals had been stolen gradually, and resold at the same rate on Le Bon Coin. Enough to bring 300,000 euros into the pockets of the couple.
Pending the judgment of this case, the couple was placed under judicial control.