A Yellow Diamond That Was Part Of A $20 Million Heist Resurfaces In A Local Hong Kong Pawn Shop


January 18, 2012

You''ve seen Ocean''s Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen? Today we bring to you a real life over 20 million dollar heist story where 5 years later one of the 1.5 million dollar diamonds resurfaces in a Hong Kong pawn shop. Read more below:  



A 16.64-carat yellow diamond that was stolen from Graff Diamonds in London in 2007 has recently somehow resurfaced in a pawn shop in Hong Kong, reports the Daily Mail.
 
The stone is valued at $1.5 million.
 
The pawn shop purportedly paid about $380,000 for the diamond, which is being held at the Gemological Institute of America in New York. The Institute has verified that it is the real diamond, which has been recut since the robbery.
 
Of course, Graff, owned by diamond titan Laurence Graff, wants the diamond back, and the pawn shop won''t return it. Graff''s now filed suit against the pawn shop in a state court in Manhattan.
 
Though that seems the least of Graff''s problems. The diamond was part of an almost $20 million heist conducted by two very stylish men five years ago.
 
As the Mail writes: "Arriving in a £118,000 chauffeur-driven Bentley Continental, the two robbers – one wearing a panama hat and the other a beige suit – were allowed into the store by security staff."
 
Those robbers have never been caught and this diamond is the first item from the raid to have turned up.
 



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