Ever heard of the Pink Panther gang? This notorious Balkan group pulled off a daring $25 million diamond heist. How'd they do it? 🤔
“They did this robbery at TEFAF in broad daylight, so you have to think, who would dare do such a thing?” Brand told In fact, the TEFAF robbery might have been one of the simplest heists the Pink Panthers ever pulled off. When they arrived at the fair, they strolled in , used a heavy object to break open cases from the British jewel company Symbolic & Chase, and got away on electric scooters. Other heists have involved crashing luxury cars into buildings and getting away on high speed boats.
Regardless of how ingenious the thieves were, they likely got away with an estimated $25 million worth of diamonds. One of the diamonds, however, has been recovered. “It was not the well-known large yellow diamond,” an investigator said in the press release. “But with the discovery of this piece of jewelry, the research team can take another big step in the investigation.”
Brand postulated that the diamond may have been lost in the course of the getaway or turned in by a suspicious diamond jeweler. But it is exactly this quality of being able to split up these valuable assets that have attracted the Pink Panthers to jewel theft as opposed to art theft. “To sell a few diamonds is easier than to sell a Van Gogh,” said Brand. “They have a whole network of people who can cut down these diamonds, and then no one recognizes them and that’s it.”
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