21/07/2022 - The new Prime Video original Italian series commemorating “the heist of the century” carried out in Antwerp in 2003 by Italian national Leonardo Notarbatolo will be available to stream in spring 2023
Diamond thieves orchestrate heists, switch out real diamonds for fakes or simply steal uncut gems from a mine. Learn how diamond thieves steal and get caught.
more than 80% of all the diamonds in the world pass through belgium, specifically they pass through the city of antwerp in belgium. about a decade ago, in february 2003, the diamond vaults inside the diamond center were plundered by a ring of italian jewel thieves. they got in through the rear of the main building, once inside they had to beat a combination lock, a key lock, a heat detector, a motion detect, a light detector and every other freaking detector known to mankind, but they did it. the theft was so seamless, so professionally executed that when the security guards came to unlock the main vault door the next morning, they found it already open, littered with jewels that the thieves had left behind. and that heist, a decade ago, they made off with an estimated $100 million worth of diamonds and other jewels. the gang of five burglars that carried out that heist were headed by the guy with the best name in heists ever. his name was leonardo notarbartolo. he got caught, but what