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Japan INTERPOL Purple notice brings arrest of two international jewel thieves

TOKYO, Japan – As a result of the worldwide circulation of an INTERPOL Purple Notice, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department arrested two Chinese suspects on 20 August at Narita Airport for stealing just months earlier a diamond ring valued at USD 170,000…..

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Is this the end for the Pink Panthers?

Gang behind world’s most elaborate gem heists ‘on brink’ as founder is caught with flat full of Croatia ambassador’s jewellery
Panthers behind £250million worth of world’s most audacious jewel heists
In 2013 gang stole £90million of jewellery in Cannes in most lucrative raid
But group co-founder Rakjo Causevic arrested Croatia ambassadors jewels
Security experts warning net is closing around world’s biggest gem thieves
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Sri Lankan man arrested at airport ‘for smuggling gold in rectum’

Customs officers at Bandaranaike International Airport stopped the 42-year-old man after noticing that he was “walking suspiciously”. He had arrived in Sri Lanka at around 1.30am on Tuesday on a flight from Singapore.

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Pictures: CCTV images of gang who raided Fraser Hart

After a smash-and-grab burglary at a jewellery store in the city centre on Saturday morning, police have released CCTV images of the gang who stole around £650,000 worth of goods. Thieves smashed the windows of Fraser Hart jewellery shop in Silbury Arcade before stealing valuable jewellery. They also started a fire, padlocked a chain across a road and blocked a street with tree trunks.

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VIDEO: Five jailed following smash-and-grab jewellery raid

A gang of five have been jailed for over 30 years after carrying out a smash-and-grab raid on an East London jewellery store.
The incident took place at around 10:50am on 9 October 2014, when four men on two mopeds drove on to the pavement outside Attenborough Jewellers on Bethnal Green Road in Tower Hamlets, stormed the shop and stole £12,000 worth of jewellery……

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Hatton Garden heist site ‘could become a museum’

The site of the Hatton Garden jewellery raid earlier this year could become a museum commemorating the heist, according to the new owner of the vaults……

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Security guard at Oxford Street jewellers takes on armed robbers single-handedly

CCTV footage shows the guard leap out from behind a cabinet to apprehend the armed robber before he is threatened with a gun

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Gang steals $20,000 in gems from car in smash-and-grab at lights

A DARING armed gang stole $20,000 of gems after smashing the windows of a car stopped at traffic lights and stealing a backpack containing the valuable jewellery.

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Hatton Garden heist ringleader ‘was also involved in Brinks Mat robbery’

Two ringleaders of the Hatton Garden jewellery heist were involved in two of the biggest raids in British criminal history more than 30 years ago, a court has heard.

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VIDEO: Have-a-go-heroes tackle jewellery robber in Leeds

Armed robbers who targets a Leeds jewellers in a million pounds raid were tracked down after ‘have-a-go-heroes’ intervened and detained one of the gang.
The Estonian gang, who flew into the country just days before the raid, stole more than 150 watches worth more than £935,000 when they struck at Berry’s jewellers in Albion Street on 24 March earlier this year…..

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