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Arrests followed in Antwerp. English readers later met the story through Wired and the 2010 book Flawless by Scott Andrew Selby and Greg Campbell, which named the School of Turin label. Those accounts are journalism, not a vault manual, and this atlas uses them only for public names and court outcomes.
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Antwerp diamond heist · paras 1
Investigators reconstructed the weekend after a discarded cache of papers, videotape and building-related material was found near the Forêt de Soignes outside Brussels. That find, not a confession in the vault, tied Notarbartolo's rented office to the loss.
Antwerp diamond heist · paras 2
Arrests followed in Antwerp. English readers later met the story through Wired and the 2010 book Flawless by Scott Andrew Selby and Greg Campbell, which named the School of Turin label. Those accounts are journalism, not a vault manual, and this atlas uses them only for public names and court outcomes.
Antwerp diamond heist · paras 1
Notarbartolo was convicted in Antwerp and sentenced to a term of years; he served time in Belgium. Co-defendants received sentences in person or in absentia. Later Italian and Belgian proceedings added footnotes. None of those judgments included a public restitution of the full 2003 estimate.
Antwerp diamond heist · paras 2
Notarbartolo later gave interviews that disputed the official scale and blamed others. Courts had already treated him as a central figure. The mixed status of the dossier is exactly this split: legal responsibility on the record, property still off it. Belgium did not pass a famous named 'Antwerp Act' after 2003. The diamond quarter reviewed building access, tenant screening and vault practice.
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Notarbartolo was convicted in Antwerp and sentenced to a term of years; he served time in Belgium. Co-defendants received sentences in person or in absentia. Later Italian and Belgian proceedings added footnotes. None of those judgments included a public restitution of the full 2003 estimate.
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Notarbartolo later gave interviews that disputed the official scale and blamed others. Courts had already treated him as a central figure. The mixed status of the dossier is exactly this split: legal responsibility on the record, property still off it. Belgium did not pass a famous named 'Antwerp Act' after 2003. The diamond quarter reviewed building access, tenant screening and vault practice.
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