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Biggest bank heist in history is foiled after police pounce on gang who spent four months digging a 550 yard tunnel into the Bank of Brazil’s vault to steal £240 MILLION

Brazilian police has busted a bank robbing gang who had spent four months digging a tunnel into the main vault of the national bank containing £240million. Police found the 550yard-long tunnel in southern Sao Paulo, leading from the robbers’ lair to a branch of the Bank of Brazil. 

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Robbers make off with ¥197m from gems sale

Armed men assaulted and robbed two employees of a jewellery firm of ¥197-million cash (about 60 million baht) on the fifth floor of the car park at a high-rise condominium in Bangkok’s Chatuchak district late on Monday night.

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Dramatic footage shows a Russian SWAT team burst into a jewellery shop and overpower thieves in a matter of seconds

A SWAT team burst in on three thieves ransacking a jewellery shop, catching them red-handed. CCTV captured the scene as the men began stealing from the Zolotoy jewellery shop in the city of St-Petersburg in north-western Russia.

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New York police are searching for a woman they say tried to rob 4 banks in 1 hour

The New York Police Department is searching for a woman suspected of attempting to rob four banks within 40 minutes on Tuesday.

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Oceanside man arrested after Laguna Beach police find $500,000 in jewelry, loaded guns

LAGUNA BEACH   — A 30-year-old man suspected in a burglary in July at the Shops at the Cliffs was arrested Tuesday, Sept. 26, after Laguna Beach detectives found him at an Oceanside home, along with jewelry valued at $500,000.

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Romanian immigrant fraudster, 26, who used sleight-of-hand magic tricks to steal jewellery worth £24,000 from under the noses of shopkeepers is jailed

A Romanian fraudster, who used sleight-of-hand magic tricks so steal jewellery worth £24,000 fro under the noses of shopkeepers, has been jailed. Mircea Rostas, 26, who has conviction for crimes abroad, began a theft spree within months of arriving in the UK in October last year. 

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‘Mafia boss’ and football club owner among 11 arrested in massive sports car heist on party island Marbella

The raid by Spanish Civil Guard officers yielded sports cars, jewellery, vast sums of cash, and numerous heavy machine guns…

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Thieves stole $600K in jewelry in broad-daylight heist

A thieving duo stole $600,000 worth of jewelry from a Manhattan store in a brazen daytime robbery, police said. The pair walked into Sean’s Diamond and Jewelry Inc. on Canal Street near Broadway on Sept. 15 around 11:30 am, flashed guns and demanded one of the employees open the safe, according to police.

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5 from Ohio indicted in $1.2 million Monroeville diamond, jewelry heist

Five Ohio residents have been indicted in the theft of about $1.2 million worth of diamonds and jewelry in a strong-arm robbery of a New York jewelry merchant outside a Monroeville restaurant last year, according to the U.S. attorney in Cincinnati.

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86-year-old international jewel thief out of jail again

PALM DESERT — An 86-year-old jewel thief whose decades of exploits include crimes at home and abroad — including the 2013 theft of a diamond ring from a Palm Desert store — is out of custody again following two recent brushes with the law in Georgia.

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