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In the first five and a half months of this year, the authorities estimate, thieves in the eight counties that make up the Central Valley have stolen 46,000 gallons of diesel fuel, 30percentt more than in all of last year.
Others have caught onto the scam: The National Association of Convenience Stores estimates thieves siphoned some $134 million of gasoline in 2007.
But the program is voluntary, and the Missouri Cattlemen's Association estimates that thieves have stolen more than $1.1 million in cattle and equipment in the past four years.
One expert estimated that thieves might have made off with diamonds worth "hundreds and hundreds of thousands of pounds".
It was impossible to estimate how much the thieves had got away with and the stolen goods would include family heirlooms and personal jewellery as well as stock from gem, diamond and pearl dealers, he said.
A silver-haired 67-year-old, Mr. Dodd risks looking like a scold in public appearances that find him lecturing opponents about damage to the economy, including some $58 billion in estimated annual losses to copyright thieves.
In the first three months of 2011, thieves stole an estimated 50 million euros ($73 million) of allowances from registries in Eastern Europe, hacking into computers and transferring the credits to the open market.
Thieves steal an estimated average of 100,000 barrels a day, the report said; working in elaborate networks and protected by corrupted security officials, they tap into the huge and isolated network of pipes that crisscross the country's swampy southern Niger Delta region.
One of the largest was the 2009 attack on card processor Heartland Payment Systems which saw thieves stealing an estimated 130 million credit cards.
Mr. Zhang estimates that he's caught 2,000 thieves so far and is resigned to a life filled with "annoying things," he says.
Thieves stole diamonds worth an estimated $118m which were never recovered, although police arrested several suspects.
