Only one person has been convicted in connection with a diamond heist at a Brussels airport, 22 others have been acquitted. The heist took place almost a decade ago.
drew comparisons to the Hollywood movie"Ocean's Eleven" for its clean, clinical execution that left no one hurt.
Baggage carts make their way past a Helvetic Airways' aircraft from which about $50 million worth of diamonds were stolen on the tarmac of a Brussels airport on Feb. 19, 2013. The four remaining suspects in the case were acquitted on appeal on March 8, 2023, leaving it unclear whether the mastermind will ever be found.
On a crisp, wintry evening in 2013, eight robbers dressed in police clothing cut through security fences at Brusselsand headed for a Swiss-bound plane where parcels of gems from the nearby Antwerp global diamond hub were being loaded. They brandished machine guns at pilots and transport security officials, got into the hold of the plane and took off with 120 parcels.It barely took five minutes and none of the 29 passengers on the plane knew anything was happening.
Investigators thought they were close to finding the robbers several times, especially three months later when they detained several dozen people in a three-nation sweep and recovered some of the diamonds. But the courts found the evidence unconvincing.
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