This happens sometimes, where theft from retailers facilities, warehouses, trucks, etc. are inside jobs. Sometimes they just give security guards some cash to be on their break when the thieves haul away merchandise. I hope that’s harder to do now with security cameras everywhere. But clever criminals will find a way.
A friend had a car transporter business. One night one of his drivers called and said that a couple of guys offered him $200,000 in cash if he would walk away from his truck for 30 minutes. It was loaded with Mercedes cars.
My friend told his driver to get in the cab and drive. Friend said that the cars were probably slated to go to China.