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A woman has been charged with stealing diamonds worth 4.2 million pounds (approximately 6.5 billion won) by cheating her identity as a jeweler and replacing diamonds with stones.
According to the British daily Guardian, the trial of Lulu Lakatoche, 60, charged with stealing seven diamonds, was held in London's Southwark Criminal Court on the 20th (local time).
Lakatoche is charged with stealing seven diamonds from a London jeweler's basement on March 10, 2016, disguised as a bailiff.
He put the diamonds in a padlocked bag, put them back into his handbag, and gave the jeweler a bag of the same shape, packed with stones the same size as the diamonds, and fled.
It turned out that there was also an elaborate preliminary competition.
Jeweler owner Nicholas Wainwright, 73, agreed to a diamond deal in 2016 with an Israeli who approached him as an investor interested in buying expensive jewelry.
Rakatosh disguised as a jeweler sent by this Israeli and promised to visit the jeweler in advance, avoiding the jeweler's suspicions.
The jeweler's owner didn't notice at first, but after a long time with the jeweler's appraiser, he opened the bag and found out that he had been deceived.
They even took X-rays of the locked packaging, but did not suspect that the contents were diamond shaped.
Among the stolen diamonds was a 20-carat heart-shaped diamond worth £2.2 million.
Lakatoche was arrested in France in November of last year and extradited to the UK.
Two of the accomplices have already been convicted.
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