Overview
- Police say two devices from the July 2016 Görlitz theft were identified in international seizures and were handed back to the hospital in November 2025.
- Hospital director Lutz Möller says the instruments will undergo med‑tech inspection, with usability uncertain given possible compatibility issues.
- The FBI reported seizing 84 stolen medical devices in May 2024 during searches in the USA, Colombia and Panama, including 41 traced to Germany.
- Investigators say the group shipped endoscopes disguised as computer equipment to Colombia for refurbishment and black‑market resale in South and North America.
- Authorities report 2017 arrests in Israel and Peru and state the ring’s structures were broken up, with no comparable cases in Germany since spring 2019 and global losses counted in the hundreds of millions of euros.