In an industrial area outside Stockholm, a white truck begins to move.

The cargo contains clothes that were stolen from the aid organization Human Bridge collection boxes nine days earlier.

One of the garments also has a sewn-in GPS transmitter.

When the truck drives towards Nynäshamn's ferry berth, it is shaded by the Assignment review team.

Shortly afterwards, both the team and the truck are on board a ferry to Latvia.

The journey continues into Lithuania and up to the city of Kaunas.

There, the battery on the GPS transmitter runs out and the hunt seems to have been lost.

License plates reveal

But with the help of Lithuanian journalists, Assignment Review manages to find ads online for the sale of unsorted clothing from Sweden. 

The phone number in one of the ads goes to an area with warehouses and a car repair shop, just outside Kaunas.

Several of the GPS transmitters sent out during the last six months have been tracked here. 

On the car workshop's Facebook page, there are pictures of vans with registration plates documented from the thefts in Sweden.

The man behind the workshop sells Swedish clothes in bulk online and runs at least two large second-hand shops.

Lithuanian journalists confront the man over the phone.

Swedish television has with GPS tracked clothes that were stolen from charities.

Several of the transmitters led to your warehouse.

- I do not understand how it is possible.

What do stolen clothes have to do with me?

When the man is offered to see GPS data showing how the stolen clothes led to his car repair shop, he says he is not willing to do an interview and hangs up the phone.

Up to 2000 tons each year

The Lithuanian journalists later pretend to be customers in one of the man's shops and are told by the staff that new loads of clothes arrive every week.

Robert Bergman, operations manager at Human Bridge, says that as much as 1,500 to 2,000 tons of clothes are stolen from their collection boxes each year. 

Is it organized?

- It must be.

It is not possible to carry out such thefts without it being organized.

The report "Dirty clothes" can be seen on SVT Play.