Dutch police are closing in on the diamond thieves behind the astonishing daylight robbery at TEFAF Maastricht:
The Pink Panthers are known for their bold daylight robberies, posing as well-dressed customers and then acting with precision to quickly make off with millions in stolen jewels. Other thefts have involved crashing cars into buildings.compared to the 1975 Inspector Clouseau film, starring Peter Sellers—echoing a scene from the movie, police found one of the stolen diamond rings hidden inside a jar of face cream.
The $33 million caper was, at the time, the largest diamond heist in British history, with the thieves making off with 47 pieces of jewelry. A decade ago, theestimated that the Panthers had made off with €330 million in stolen diamonds and jewels over the course of some 341 thefts. The size of the gang has been estimated at 200 to 300 operatives, overseen by a core group of 30-or-so thieves.
The armed robbers who stole jewelry from TEFAF as captured in surveillance footage. Police have identified them as members of the infamous Pink Panther Gang. Photo courtesy of the police.At TEFAF, the robbers wore suits with newsboy hats and carried guns, using a sledgehammer to smash display cases before making off with their loot on electric scooters.
The most valuable piece in their 10-piece haul was a necklace with a 114 carat vivid yellow diamond reportedly valued at €27 million —although Charles Taylor Adjusting, a British company investigating the crime for the jewelry’s insurers, has denied the figure is that high. The firm is offering a €500,000 reward for information that leads to the return of the rest of the jewels, but the black market for valuable stones leaves prospects for their return dim.
Detectives working with Interpol and Europol recently recovered one of the stolen pieces—but not the yellow diamond, according to Dutch news outlet
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