Speaking of "thief" movies, many people will think of "Eleven" where male gods gather. There are 11 people in the "Ocean's Eleven" thieves in it. They all have unique skills and work together, and finally successfully steal a huge amount of dollars from the underground vault of a casino.
The plot is impressive. Someone in the thief group pretends to be a wealthy businessman and sneaks into the vault to attract attention. The accomplices took the opportunity to exchange the real US dollar bills in the vault with advertising leaflets, and finally used a trick to escape safely under the nose of the owner.
The news that a thief was sentenced in the past two days has attracted a lot of attention. The media called the theft case committed by their group " Realistic Version Eleven Arhats ".
has carefully planned in advance;
uses a confusing method;
gangs can escape unscathed...
plots like this make people enjoy watching it in the movie, but in reality it makes people have a big headache...
Time back to March 2016, the Boodles store in London did not know that they have become the target of the thief gang.
Boodles is a jewellery store in the UK that sells high-end jewelry, with clients including celebrities such as Beckham and famous actor Emma Thompson.
(Actor Emma Thompson attended the opening ceremony of the Boodles store)
Jewelry Store Chairman Nicholas Wainwright was invited to attend a meeting in Monaco, where he met a wealthy Russian businessman. The two talked about business.
The wealthy businessman said he wanted to buy 7 diamonds from the jewelry store, including a heart-shaped diamond weighing 20 carats and worth 2.2 million pounds (about 19.61 million yuan).
(Chairman Nicholas Wainwright)
Jewelry Store thought that it was talking about the rich and big customers, and was carefully prepared to welcome the other party to come to see the goods.
What they did not expect was that "Russian rich man" was simply fake, played by a member of a theft group. Boodles jewelry store was step by step into the trap they set.
Later, the jewelry store received a call from a wealthy businessman, who said he would entrust a representative to inspect the goods in the UK.
The representative is named Anna, who claims to be a gemologist, which is of course fake.
On March 10, the liar Anna came to the jewelry store as agreed, and a drama about stealing the sky and changing the day officially kicked off.
The person in charge of receiving Anna that day was Mr. Wainwright, chairman of Boodles, and Emma Barton, a gemologist who works for the jewelry store.
They took Anna to the underground vault of jewelry store , took out the 7 diamonds ordered by the wealthy businessman, and asked Anna to inspect the goods.
The liar Anna pretended to pick up the diamonds one by one to check.
Every time you check one, you wrap the diamond in pre-prepared paper and put it into the small box containing the gems;
(schematic diagram)
then put the box into an opaque black bag. After all the diamonds are put into the bag, Anna pulls the zipper at the seal of the bag and seals the bag.
(schematic diagram)
At the same time, Anna was also waiting for a call, which was a call to dig out of the mountain.
After a while, the so-called rich Russian business buyer called the jewelry store and wanted to speak to the chairman Mr. Wainwright, so the chairman had to go back to the ground to answer the phone.
One of the key figures left, and everyone's attention was briefly dispersed.
Taking advantage of this gap, liar Anna put the black bag containing diamonds into his handbag.
(schematic diagram)
However, Anna's action was seen by the jewellery scientist Barton in the jewelry store.
It is logical that if the purchaser has not received the payment, the buyer cannot take away such expensive diamonds, and the chairman who can make the decision has just left.
Barton said she had no right to make a decision and asked Anna to take out the bag and put it back on the table.
Anna showed a puzzled expression on her face, but she did as usual, took out the black bag from her handbag and put it back on the table.
But Barton didn't know that scammer Anna had already dropped the black bag. had real diamonds. The bag was still in the handbag. Anna took out another identical black bag and put it back.
because the bag was opaque, and I couldn't see what was inside from the outside, or I couldn't see if the diamonds inside were inside.
After inspecting the goods that day, the scammer Anna lied that she went back to report to the wealthy businessman and escaped successfully.
cheated and stole it. She brought the bag of diamonds under the nose of the owner. After
fled to the street, she immediately met the accomplice who came to pick him up, handed the bag of real diamonds in her handbag to the accomplice, and then ran away in dispersion.
In three hours after the theft, all the thieves successfully returned to France by train or car, which is their old nest. At this time, the jewelry store Boodles didn't know that they had encountered a thief, and they didn't know that their diamond had been stolen.
The next day, the jewelry store called the fake Russian rich businessman. The rich businessman expressed his satisfaction and agreed to transfer the payment immediately.
, but the jewelry store waited and waited, but he never saw the money earning. Only then did they realize something was wrong.
Jewelry Store thought that the black bag was still in the vault, so they X-rayed it first, confirmed that there was no abnormality and opened the bag. What surprised them was that the bag was not filled with diamonds, but a few small pebbles! real diamond worth 4 million pounds (about 35.592 million yuan) has disappeared!
(schematic diagram)
After knowing that he was cheated, the jewelry store immediately called the police. The police quickly pieced together the thief's crime process through surveillance cameras in the store and surrounding areas.
One pretended to be a Russian rich businessman and the other used the name of a gemologist to steal the day and exchanged expensive diamonds with valuable pebbles. There were also several accomplices around him to respond. Each step was planned in advance.
's detailed arrangement and bold plan made many people think of the movie "Eleven Arhats".
Police investigation found that a few days before the incident, a gang of 6 people came to the UK from France, including 2 men and 4 women. They booked a hotel;
On the day of the incident, all 6 of them checked out of the hotel and entered central London in batches. They acted very cautiously and came to the jewelry store to ambush.
Except for Anna, the scammer who specifically carried out theft, the other accomplices were not idle either:
Mickael Jovanovic and another man were wandering around the jewelry store, responsible for looking at the wind and closely monitoring the situation in the jewelry store;
Two women were specifically responsible for picking up Anna to prevent emergencies;
There was also a woman in a bar near Victoria Station, carrying clothes for dressing up, waiting for the accomplices to succeed and then meet up; 3 hours after
, all 6 people escaped from the UK, and the diamonds disappeared without a trace.
(the process of the case sorted by the media)
This diamond theft case is a single shoplift incident in British history. The stolen property has the greatest value.
British police attach great importance to this theft case and appointed a team to track it down. They shared photos of gang members with police in other countries to conduct international arrests.
But they have been busy for 4 years and currently only one thief has been arrested.
In 2016, Mickael Jovanovic, a man in charge of the hijacking case in , was arrested.
In January this year, he was extradited back to the UK from Italy. On the same day, he was arrested by the British police and was immediately prosecuted.
Jovanovic also confessed to the crime and admitted to committing theft with others.
Last Friday, the Southerk Criminal Court in London tried Jovanovic, and the judge called the case a case with the "'s strongest complexity, planning, risk and rewarding ". In the end,
took 4 years, and finally a criminal was punished as he deserved.
But unfortunately, Anna, the key figure in this case, and the other four accomplices, were still at large. The police's work is far from over.
British police said that the crime process has been pieced together, and the prisoners were arrested sooner or later. Although it has been 4 years, they will not give up and must arrest other prisoners.
says that "art comes from life",
, but it is better not to happen in reality if such outrageous cases similar to the plot of the movie...
ref:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8376017/Oceans-Eleven-style-gang-member-s tole-4m-gems-Mayfair-jewellers-jailed-four-years.html
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/boodles-diamonds-theft-swapped-pebbles-mayfair-a4455751.html
h ttps://uknip.co.uk/2020/06/01/man-part-of-international-organised-group-jailed-over-4-million-diamond-theft/
https://metro.co.uk/2020/06/01/international-con-artis ts-swapped-diamonds-pebbles-4200000-heist-12788870/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boodles_(company)
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