In 2005, diamonds worth $80 million were stolen at Amsterdam Airport in the Netherlands. 12 years later, seven suspects were arrested.

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Dutch police said that the five men and two women Dutch suspects were arrested in Amsterdam on the 20th, Valencia in Spain on the 20th and 2 1 respectively.

At that time, armed gangs disguised themselves as airport ground crew and started when diamonds were about to be transported to the plane. Some of these gems were found in the car they used to escape, while others worth 40 million pounds are still missing.

This diamond theft is one of the most complicated jewel theft cases in the world today. The location of the crime is the safest area of the airport. They managed to get into an armed transport vehicle of KLM, the Dutch airline.

This weekend, they were arrested by the police on suspicion of robbery and money laundering.

At that time, a batch of diamonds were about to be shipped to Antwerp, the Belgian city known as the diamond capital of Europe, and they were ready to take the opportunity to set off.

Major global jewel theft cases in this century

In February 2003, a batch of diamonds worth 654.38 billion euros were robbed at the Diamond Center in Antwerp, Belgium.

In February 2005, an armed group hijacked a truck with diamonds and other jewels worth 75 million euros at Amsterdam airport.

June 5438+February 2008, the Winston Jewelry Show in Paris was stolen, and three men stole jewels worth 85 million euros.

In August 2009, Graff Diamonds, an old jewelry company in London, was stolen, and the stolen jewelry was worth 46 million euros.

20 13 July, an armed robber stole 40 million euros worth of jewelry at a jewelry show in a hotel in Cannes, France.

20 15 April, the vault of Hatton Garden in central London was robbed, and gold bars, diamonds, jewelry and cash worth160,000 euros were stolen.