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Inside the £70K 'mafia-style' shoplifting champagne gang

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The champagne gang has stolen at least 73,000 of goods from supermarkets across the UK .

Usually operating in groups of three , the gang members wear bluetooth headsets to communicate.

They blend in with shoppers as they walk down the alcohol aisle, casually taking champagne bottles off the shelves.

One gang member will deliberately set off the security alarm to distract staff, while another simply walks out of the store with their stolen goods.

Only two members of the group have been prosecuted so far, according to the NBCS .

Humberside Police said it had liaised with North Yorkshire Police and the forces believed the two incidents in Beverley and York were linked.

However, it said the suspects could not be identified from CCTV footage and therefore no arrests could be carried out.

Project Pegasus , in the form of the National Police Chief Council , is focused on serious organised shoplifting.

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English

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