Post by account_disabled on Mar 12, 2024 1:05:30 GMT -5
Each of the 189 safe deposit boxes had a specific key and a combination with more than 17,000 possibilities. To this day, how they managed to carry out the robbery remains a mystery.
The perfect technical execution was spoiled because Email Data of a friend of the Italian, who was not able to get rid of the evidence that linked him to the largest jewel theft in history. Notarbartolo was arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison, but has been released on parole. The diamonds have not been recovered.
Statiekwartier neighborhood in Antwerp (Photo: Tugranviaje)
On July 12, 1987, the Italian Valerio Viccei asked to rent, together with an accomplice, one of the safe deposit boxes at the Knightsbridge Depot. When the bank operator opened the chamber in which the boxes were located, he was held at gunpoint. They did the same with the rest of the workers and with the bank director.
The rest of the robbers then entered the establishment. They closed the bank by putting a sign on the door so that people wouldn't be suspicious and began taking everything the safe deposit boxes contained, which would be equivalent to a total of 60 million pounds today. The biggest cash robbery in British history.
It was almost a perfect crime. Viccei fled to Latin America, but made the mistake of returning to England to ship his Ferrari to his new home. That's when the police arrested him and also broke his car windshield in the chase.
The perfect technical execution was spoiled because Email Data of a friend of the Italian, who was not able to get rid of the evidence that linked him to the largest jewel theft in history. Notarbartolo was arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison, but has been released on parole. The diamonds have not been recovered.
Statiekwartier neighborhood in Antwerp (Photo: Tugranviaje)
On July 12, 1987, the Italian Valerio Viccei asked to rent, together with an accomplice, one of the safe deposit boxes at the Knightsbridge Depot. When the bank operator opened the chamber in which the boxes were located, he was held at gunpoint. They did the same with the rest of the workers and with the bank director.
The rest of the robbers then entered the establishment. They closed the bank by putting a sign on the door so that people wouldn't be suspicious and began taking everything the safe deposit boxes contained, which would be equivalent to a total of 60 million pounds today. The biggest cash robbery in British history.
It was almost a perfect crime. Viccei fled to Latin America, but made the mistake of returning to England to ship his Ferrari to his new home. That's when the police arrested him and also broke his car windshield in the chase.