Japan INTERPOL Purple notice brings arrest of two international jewel thieves

Published: 03.09.2015 - 16:45 | Juwelier-Warndienst

TOKYO, Japan – As a result of the worldwide circulation of an INTERPOL Purple Notice, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department arrested two Chinese suspects on 20 August at Narita Airport for stealing just months earlier a diamond ring valued at USD 170,000.
Footage from a Tokyo jeweller’s security camera enabled the INTERPOL National Central Bureau (NCB) for Japan to publish a Purple Notice illustrating to the 190 INTERPOL member countries how the suspects entered the shop in January and pocketed the diamond ring while diverting the vendor’s attention……