Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Soon to be a movie
Although they might want to wait until the crooks are caught, if ever, to give it a proper ending. Finally in the tradition of great criminal capers, $50 Million in gemstones, cut and uncut have been stolen in a clean and swiftly executed heist at the Brussels airport.
In a meticulously planned raid that took barely five minutes to execute, armed men disguised as police officers drove onto the tarmac at the international airport in Brussels on Monday night and stole diamonds worth around $50 million as they were being loaded onto a plane bound for Switzerland, officials said.Now the biggest question is not whodunit? but who will play the lead? And do we root for the crooks or the cops?
The stolen gems, a mix of rough and cut stones, had arrived at the airport by road from the Belgian port city of Antwerp, the world’s biggest diamond trading center, and were to be flown on a scheduled passenger flight to Zurich, an important transit point in the global diamond business...
Helvetic Airways, an independent Swiss airline that operated the plane targeted in the robbery, said security for valuable cargo is normally the responsibility of the airport and the security company hired to transport the shipment to the plane. An airline spokesman in Zurich declined to comment further.
Diamonds bought in Antwerp for either cutting or sale abroad are usually taken to the Brussels airport under police escort in armored security vans, and the thieves took advantage of a brief gap in this tightly guarded procedure during the loading of cargo. No arrests have been reported. The police said that they had found the burned remains of a vehicle believed to have been used in the robbery near the airport on Monday night.
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