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Priceless items stolen from Dresden’s Green Vault museum

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BERLIN — Thieves broke into Dresden’s Green Vault, one of the world’s oldest museums, early Monday morning, making off with three “priceless” sets of 18th century jewelry that German officials said would be impossible to sell on the open market.The treasury of Augustus the Strong of Saxony was established in 1723 and today contains around 4,000 objects of gold, precious stones and other materials on display in Dresden’s Royal Palace….

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LAPD: Jewelry District Business Was “Major” Counterfeit Distributor

Moossa Lari (pictured), who heads a business in Los Angeles’ jewelry district, has been charged with a felony trademark violation for allegedly running a “major” distributor of counterfeit jewelry, according to a news release from the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD)….

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Spanish police dismantle counterfeit money operation in Huelva

Spanish Police have dismantled a clandestine printing press in the southwestern Spain, preventing the circulation of more than 250.000 euros in counterfeit bills in Spain and Portugal. Six people were arrested and more than 8.000 euro in fake 10, 20-and 50-euro notes were confiscated during a raid on a clandestine printing shop in the Port city of Huelva about 60 km from border with Portugal.

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Identity of Balkan “cocaine king” behind vast international trafficking gang revealed in Swiss courts

The “cocaine king” accused of being behind one of the largest ever drugs busts to take place on European soil has been identified as the Balkan organised crime boss Michael Dokovich, according to court documents in Switzerland, where he is being held awaiting extradition to Montenegro.

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Jewelry Store Robber Linked to Terrorist Group ISIS

A man accused of robbing a Canadian jewelry store in 2014 has been indicted for providing material support to the terrorist group ISIS.Last month, the U.S. Attorney’s office in San Diego charged Abdullahi Ahmed Abdullahi with conspiring with several Canadian and U.S. citizens to finance the travels of Douglas McCain, the first American known to have died fighting for the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, otherwise known as ISIS….

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Cash in transit van ‘significantly damaged’ during attempted robbery in Clongriffin

A cash in transit van was “significantly damaged” during an robbery attempt in north Dublin this morning. The van was damaged when a number of men managed to gain entry to the van shortly before midday today in Grange Lodge Avenue, Clongriffin. The would-be thieves didn’t manage to get away with any money during the robbery attempt but did cause extensive damage to the van.

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Video: Suspected ram raid on London jewellery store results in arrest

Police have arrested a suspected robber after an apparent ram-raid on a jewellery store in west London. Scotland Yard said officers were called shortly before 5.30pm on Friday after a car was reportedly driven into…

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Cut holes in shopping centre roof for jewellery robbery

A ROMANIAN national already in prison and facing deportation for crimes in Ireland was brought before Letterkenny Circuit Court on Thursday. Costel Rosloveanu (29) with a previous address in Borris in Ossory, County Laois, but now in Cloverhill Prison, pleaded guilty to the theft of almost €60,000 worth of jewellery from MCCullagh’s Jewellers.

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Jewellery robbers threaten bystanders with machete and crowbar in brazen High Street raid as they empty shop with no police in sight (Video)

A brazen gang of robbers broke into a High Street jewellers in front of shocked pub goers and passersby. The thieves, armed with a machete and a crowbar, broke into Georgian Gems jewellers in the pretty Dorset seaside town of Swanage on Saturday night.

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French jeweller held in Germany in international gold trafficking investigation

….The French jeweller would then travel to Frankfurt, Germany, where he would sell the melted jewels with the help of an accomplice who managed a shop selling gold. ….

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