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The diamond hoax of 1872 was a swindle in which a pair of prospectors sold a false american diamond deposit to prominent businessmen in san francisco and new york city. The police and public gasped at the audacity of the great hatton garden heist of 2015, where millions in cash and jewels were taken from an underground vault in. Select any poster below to play the movie, totally free. The heist took place during the weekend of february 1516, 2003, in. The high profile theft took just about three minutes to execute, prompting people to describe it as the reallife version of the oceans eleven movie script. The story of the worlds largest diamond heist schneier. Inside the largest diamond heist in history by scott. Diamonds on the inside is harpers sixth chapter of truth and just one listen to the electric blaze of everything will convince you. A devastating diamond heist would probably not come to mind immediately. Inside ringing alarms and broken locks informed them that the centres vault had been the scene of the centurys largest diamond heist. The untold story of the worlds biggest diamond heist. Everything was normal in the months leading up to the heist. In february 2003, a band of professional italian thieves known as the school of turin carried out the largest diamond heist in history.
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