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Belgian police arrested Leonardo Notarbartolo, an Italian who rented an office in the building, after rubbish discarded near Brussels yielded Diamond Centre paper and video stills. He and several associates, later nicknamed the School of Turin in English-language magazines, were tried in Antwerp. Notarbartolo received a multi-year sentence; others were convicted in absentia or later.
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Antwerp diamond heist · tagline
Over the weekend of 15–16 February 2003 a vault at Antwerp's Diamond Centre was emptied of stones, jewellery and cash. Leonardo Notarbartolo was convicted; most of the haul was never recovered.
Antwerp diamond heist · Belgian police arrested Leonardo Notarbartolo, an Italian who re
Belgian police arrested Leonardo Notarbartolo, an Italian who rented an office in the building, after rubbish discarded near Brussels yielded Diamond Centre paper and video stills. He and several associates, later nicknamed the School of Turin in English-language magazines, were tried in Antwerp. Notarbartolo received a multi-year sentence; others were convicted in absentia or later.
Antwerp diamond heist · The status is mixed because a court named people and a building,
The status is mixed because a court named people and a building, while the goods themselves mostly never reappeared. This page records what was taken, who was convicted and what investigators did afterward. It does not describe how a vault is opened. The Diamond Centre vault served many small firms, not a single De Beers stockpile.
Antwerp diamond heist · paras 2
Insurers and the Antwerp diamond trade treated the weekend as a shock to a district that markets itself on secure custody. The unrecovered portion matters more than the courtroom names: stones that re-enter cutting and trading channels become hard to identify as the 2003 lot.
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The status is mixed because a court named people and a building, while the goods themselves mostly never reappeared. This page records what was taken, who was convicted and what investigators did afterward. It does not describe how a vault is opened. The Diamond Centre vault served many small firms, not a single De Beers stockpile.
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Insurers and the Antwerp diamond trade treated the weekend as a shock to a district that markets itself on secure custody. The unrecovered portion matters more than the courtroom names: stones that re-enter cutting and trading channels become hard to identify as the 2003 lot.
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