The detective and the diamond heist: Part 1
When $100m dollars worth of jewels vanished from Antwerp’s Diamond District, detective Patrick Peys faced the biggest and most baffling case of his career.
Part one: The 'heist of the Century'
In the late 1990s, Belgian detective Patrick Peys joined the Diamond Squad. Based in Antwerp's Diamond District, this was the world's first police unit dedicated to solving diamond crime. And soon, Patrick would face the most baffling case of his career when a group of thieves pulled off what seemed to be the perfect robbery. They broke into one of the most heavily guarded vaults in the Diamond District and stole $100m dollars worth of jewels. It was the biggest diamond robbery in history. No one saw the thieves coming in, or out. But what followed was a trail of strange clues leading to a mysterious criminal mastermind.
Presenter: Emily Webb
Producer: Maryam Maruf
Image: diamonds
Credit: Olivier Polet/Corbis via Getty Images
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- Sun 3 Mar 2019 10:06GMTΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service except Europe and the Middle East
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