Three airport workers have been identified as the culprits behind the theft of two pallets of ZOTAC GeForce RTX 5090 cards from Guarulhos International Airport in São Paulo, Brazil. The shipment, owned by Oderço, a distributor based in Maringá, was valued at around R$2.5 million (roughly $470,000). According to a police report, two outsourced forklift operators moved the pallets out of the cargo terminal's warehouse on September 21, captured on security cameras, while a third employee, a checker, released the goods in the electronic system to bypass airport controls. The cards were loaded onto a truck and have not been recovered.
At least one of the stolen cards surfaced on OLX for R$32,000 (about $6,000), and Brazil's Jornal da Band confirmed its serial number matched one of the imported cards. The listing was later removed, and it remains unclear who posted it or whether that person was involved. No arrests have been announced.
Oderço's president, Oderço Matos, emphasized that two pallets don't simply vanish inside an international airport. While GPU shipments have been stolen before, including containers of MSI RTX 3090 cards and a truck full of EVGA cards, this haul is especially valuable due to the RTX 5090's high demand for AI workloads, with some listings exceeding $8,000.
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