The World’s Biggest DIAMOND HEIST/ROBBERY, now EXPLAINED in DETAILS.

This is a very interesting story. It even sounds more like a novel than a real life story!

It’s a little lengthy, but hang in there and just read it like a novel. It’s freaking interesting!

I will not be copying and pasting the whole length of the story here as it’s really long and there’re many details in it.

Basically, it’s a heist organized by this dude called Leonardo Notarbartolo, with people with extraordinary talents in robbery(just like what you see in movies), nicknamed Speed, Monster, The Genius and the King of Keys.

The King of Keys true identity was never found, and thus, he was never apprehended though there are evidences of phone calls made to him and his DNA was known. The ‘dealer’ who financed and brought them together was also never found. They never saw him after the heist even though he was supposed to meet them.

Here are some parts of the story that i am quite bewildered(there are many others too though, you have to read it to believe it):

Look at the freaking security layers and how they broke those security in the story.(Hint: Even the investigators marvel at their ingenuity in breaking the security layers)
diamond-heist
The Door
1. Combination dial (0-99)
2. Keyed lock
3. Seismic sensor (built-in)
4. Locked steel grate
5. Magnetic sensor
6. External security camera

The Vault
7. Keypad for disarming sensors
8. Light sensor
9. Internal security camera
10. Heat/motion sensor (approximate location)

-Notarbartolo reflected on his interactions with the diamond dealer, and a thought flashed through his mind: Maybe the dealer wasn’t operating alone. If he tipped off a group of his fellow merchants, they could have pulled their inventory out of the vault before the heist. Each could then claim that their gems were stolen and collect the insurance while secretly keeping their stones. Most had safes in their offices—they could have simply kept the stock there. Notarbartolo realized that the heist he had spent so much time planning might have actually been part of an elaborate insurance scam.
He shut off the water. A half hour earlier he was a king. Now he felt like a pawn.

READ THE STORY HERE! on Wired.com

This entry was written by fupper and posted on March 18, 2009 at 12:40 pm and filed under The Internet's Weird and Funny. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.