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25 Mill. Dollars Stolen In Diamonds
25 Mill. Dollars Stolen In Diamonds Diamonds in the value of 25 million dollars were stole from Antwerp bank safety vault, diamond trade center.
 
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Published: March 13, 2007 11:22h
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Diamonds in the value of 25 million dollars were stole from Antwerp bank safety vault, Yahoo news reports.

The thief was the bank`s client for a year, he used a stolen Argentinean passport and a false identity and had access to safes, because he was one of the few “trustworthy diamond traders”.

Police believe the robbery was carefully planned because the passport was stolen in Israel a few years ago, and the robber most probably used a false identity- Carlos Hector Flomenbaum of Argentina.

The bank discovered the robbery on March 5 and believes it occurred between Friday and that Monday morning.

An APB was issued with a reward of two million dollars for information on the perpetrator and a photofit was made of a gray-haired man, between 55 and 60 years of age, but it was not stated who is to pay the reward, nor why the news was announced more than a week after the robbery.

In 2003, in the world`s greatest vault robbery in Antwerp, 123 safes were broken into, and thieves managed to take “only” 100 million dollars in diamonds, gold and jewelry. More than half of diamonds in the world are resold in the Antwerp district, where a labyrinth of small streets encircles the central railway station. A turnover of 23 billion dollars per year makes this destination one of the greatest concentrations of valuables in the world.

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