The Gist: In Antwerp, there is a tiny square of a Diamond District, through which passes most of the world’s very finest stones. As you’d imagine it’s a high security area, with plenty of armed guards ...
On a weekend in February 2003, five men carried out what’s largely considered to be the world’s biggest diamond heist ever in Antwerp, Belgium. Led by Leonardo Notarbartolo, the diamond heist saw a ...
BRUSSELS — Unlike the brilliant thieves in “Ocean’s Eleven,” it appears that those behind the clockwork-precision, $50 million diamond heist at Brussels Airport may not get a Hollywood ending. After ...
Led by Leonardo Notarbartolo, the men came to be known as the School of Turin, who operated under the aliases of Speedy, the Monster, the Genius and the King of Keys Four of the five men were caught ...