In 2006, APV was the victim of a well-planned fraudulent equipment hire that resulted in the theft of hundreds of thousands of US dollars worth of production equipment from our Hong Kong headquarters.  We have now learned that at least two independent production companies in the Netherlands have been preyed upon by thieves operating in exactly the same manner -- and whom we believe are in fact the same criminals.

Fortunately, one company, Cam-A-Lot (www.camalot.nl), had seen a video APV created and posted on YouTube after the 2006 theft.  Our video contained CCTV images of the thieves, one of whom bore an uncanny resemblence to their "client" in Amsterdam; a timely email and a few international phone calls later, and they declined the rental.  The other company was not so fortunate, and since they had not seen our video, went ahead with a hire of HD equipment to the same man.  Their equipment was stolen.