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Three airport workers implicated in $470,000 RTX 5090 heist as one of the stolen cards appears online

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Three airport workers implicated in $470,000 RTX 5090 heist as one of the stolen cards appears online

Connecting the dots: Remember the story last week about the Brazilian hardware distributor that revealed two pallets of Zotac GeForce RTX 5090 cards, worth around $470,000, had gone missing from São Paulo/Guarulhos airport? Two not entirely surprising developments have emerged: a card identified as one of the stolen flagships has appeared for sale online, and authorities say three employees were involved in the heist.

Oderço Distribuidora, a Brazilian importer and distributor of computer hardware, recently revealed that the two pallets of RTX 5090s imported from the US went missing at the São Paulo airport while on the way to the company.

The firm's president, Oderço Matos, said the company decided to go public after receiving no explanation from public authorities or the airport itself. There was also no video footage of the pallets being moved, which seemed especially suspicious, and airport officials were reportedly unwilling to cooperate, either with the press or with Oderço.

A Brazilian TV news network has apparently identified one of the missing Zotac cards for sale on the online marketplace OLX for over $6,000, which is a good deal for an RTX 5090 these days.

In what could be a monumentally stupid error, the images uploaded by the seller included a very clear picture of the card's serial number, which linked it to the missing goods. There is nothing identifying the seller, and the listing has now been taken down.

GMC reports that, according to the police, the pallets arrived in Brazil on September 20 before being registered with customs on September 25.


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