Posted on 11/25/2019 12:51:25 PM PST by ransomnote
Full Title: MINUTE BY MINUTE How Dresden Green Vault raiders carried out the ‘world’s biggest-ever heist’ stealing €1 billion jewels
A GANG of thieves have pulled off the biggest heist in history by stealing €1 billion worth of jewels from a museum in Germany.
The Gruenes Gewoelbe (Green Vault) in Dresden, was targeted by robbers that broke into the building in the early hours of this morning.
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Here's the break down how the crooks pulled off what is thought to be comfortably the largest heist in history, smashing the previous record $500 million raid on the Gardner Museum in Boston nearly 30 years ago.
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Tiny thieves Security sources say the thieves were very small in stature to have been able to fit through the tiny gap they managed to make.
CCTV also showed the diminutive bandits inside the building.
Official sources have described the perpetrators as "conspicuously small".
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These thieves must have the mother of all fences.
Little Women ?
May just ask for ransom
Art of the Steal with Kurt Russell...
Time Bandits???
Time Bandits!.........................
If ANY contact is made the robbers are DEAD MEAT. Do you think that the German polizei will meekly hand over the Euros and waltz away? I seriously doubt it.
The ONLY way they planned it was by ALREADY having a fence to sell it OR having a buyer somewhere in the world.
Of course, that's just my guess.
These thieves must have the mother of all fences.
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Article says museum curators have issue a plea to the thieves not to melt down the jewelry pieces....but it would indeed take, as you say, the MOAF if they didn’t!.
Or, for those of you that go even further back...
"You need be creative to make living when you small."
Actually it is not uncommon for museums to discreetly pay a ransom for the return of valuable works of art or antiquities. It’s typically done through very back channel but trusted third parties. The ransom is almost always well below the actual value of the stolen art, but the crooks have the advantage of unloading their loot and getting a quick payday that they can bank in an offshore account somewhere.
Ransom.
Single buyer.
Break ‘em down and sell the individual stones.
All risky.
But it’s a daring heist.
Glad no one got hurt.
Property crime.
In San Francisco, probably a misdemeanor.
Europe seems to more of a target of such adventures than other locations. Perhaps they have more targets or simply have less security.
So SOMEWHERE along that line the police COULD be there.
If the police AREN'T somewhere there then MAYBE some of the art work stolen WAS someone else's stolen art work.
"Ransom" stinks of payola.
Most likely a hired robbery. Someone wanted these specific items, hired the gang through a middleman to carry out the heist. No fence involved.
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