The Antwerp Diamond Heist

"You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much" (youcantellafinn) 07/19/2016 at 09:15 • Filed to: None

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Courtesy of Wired.com

De Bruycker called headquarters, asking for a nationwide alert: The Antwerp Diamond Center had been brazenly robbed. Then he dialed Securilink, the vault’s alarm company.

“What is the status of the alarm?” he asked.

“Fully functional,” the operator said, checking the signals coming in from the Diamond Center. “The vault is secure.”

“Then how is it that the door is wide open and I’m standing inside the vault?” De Bruycker demanded, glancing at the devastation all around him.

He hung up and looked at Peys. They were up against a rare breed of criminal.

Courtesy of Wired.com

!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! reads like a movie. Thieves made off with somewhere between $20 million and $100 million dollars worth of diamonds, gold, cash and valuables which has never been recovered. Four of the five perpetrators were convicted through circumstantial evidence, though one has never been found. A massive insurance scam may or may not have happened, and it was either orchestrated by an insider in the Antwerp diamond industry or by the Italian Mafia.

Bobby Z. > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 07/19/2016 at 09:19

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I coulda done that fo sho

CalzoneGolem > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 07/19/2016 at 09:22

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You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > CalzoneGolem 07/19/2016 at 09:28

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Sam > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 07/19/2016 at 09:43

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Honestly, if thieves are both a) robbing a company that is huge and has a good insurance policy, and b) doing it without harming a single person in any way (other than financially), I’ve gotta applaud their skill.

Sam > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 07/19/2016 at 09:44

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Party-vi > CalzoneGolem 07/19/2016 at 09:46

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FEET

CalzoneGolem > Party-vi 07/19/2016 at 09:54

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You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > Sam 07/19/2016 at 11:57

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To defeat all the security and get away with the loot is beyond impressive. It is amazing that the security company had no idea the vault was compromised until they were called by the police the next morning.

What I really wonder about is how much was actually in the vault. Was there really only $20 million like Notarbartolo claims, or was there really $100 million? Where did it end up? Of all the stuff stolen from the vault it sounds like there was only a tiny amount of bills recovered.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 07/28/2016 at 15:47

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The funny thing is that diamonds are a totally bogus industry, good!