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Five jailed over £7m Monopoly money scam on jewellery stores

A gang of conmen who used Monopoly money to trick jewellery store owners as part of a £7m scam have been sent to jail for a combined total of 22 years.
The sentencing follows an investigation into organised frauds, including an elaborate fraud in Bristol where a jeweller lost £420,000 worth of diamonds, diamond rings and watches, another in London where a jeweller was defrauded £6.1m, a £250,000 theft in Wiltshire and a £200,000 theft in Leeds……

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FBI Holding Forum on Diamond Money Laundering

The event aims at stopping diamonds from being used in terrorist financing. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in conjunction with Europol, Interpol, the National Police of the Netherlands, the U.S. State Dept., and the World Customs Organization, is sponsoring a two-day event on the role diamonds play in money laundering and terrorist financing.

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FBI Offers $10,000 Reward for Strip Jewelry Armed Robbery Suspects

LAS VEGAS (KXNT) – A $10,000 federal reward is now offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of five men behind an armed jewelry store robbery earlier this month, according the FBI’s Las Vegas Division.

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Pavilion jewellery store robbed

Durban – Security guards dived for cover when confronted by AK-47-wielding robbers during a closing time heist at Westville’s Pavilion Shopping Centre. Four men forced their way into Beverley Jewellers at about 6pm on Wednesday, said a witness.

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Wafi Mall Dh14.7 million heist: ‘Pink Panther’ in Dubai court

One member of gang denies involvement in court. One of the accused involved in an infamous Dh14.7 million heist at Dubai’s Wafi Mall in 2007, who was handed over to Dubai Police by Spanish authorities, appeared before the Dubai Criminal Court.

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Swindlers who bought designer watches and jewellery with Monopoly money are sent to prison

A GANG of fraudsters who paid for watches, jewellery and diamonds worth some £600,000 with Monopoly money have been jailed for 16 years.

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Retail crime cost UK retailers over £2.34bn in 2015

Crime cost UK retailers more than £2.34bn last year, according to the recent UK Retail Fraud Survey 2016 published by Retail Knowledge.
Launched at the Retail Risk conference and sponsored by WIS International, the survey found that employee theft was identified as the single biggest cause, with 68% of retailers citing it as their top area of loss……

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2 women rob Saudi jewellery shop

Two veiled women went into a jewellery shop in Saudi Arabia and pretended to be checking pieces before one of them picked an item and hid it under her clothes.

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Cheeky Monkey: Watch CCTV footage of jewellery shop being robbed by primate

IN a bizarre incident, a jewellery shop in India’s southern Andhra Pradesh state was robbed of 10,000 rupees (£100) by a monkey last month.

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VIDEO: Man jailed after failed jewellery store robbery dressed as a woman

VIDEO: A man who attempted to carry out an armed robbery at a Surrey-based jewellers while dressed in women’s clothing has been jailed.
The attempted robbery took place shortly after 5pm on Friday, 19 February, when Ryan Valentine, 39, entered the jewellery shop on Leatherhead high street wearing a long black wig, dark sunglasses, a black skirt, a light coloured long-sleeved top and carrying a dark coloured handbag……

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