Theft of over one million euros in Rome. Rip-Deal diamonds stolen, two arrests

A theft of 1,346,000 euros, the result of a complex criminal planning.

It is the value of the diamonds stolen in Rome last June for which the State Police of the Trevi Campo Marzio District, following in-depth investigations, coordinated by the Rome Public Prosecutor's Office, identified and arrested two people seriously suspected of the crime.

The rip-deal technique 

The theft, which took place in the center of Rome last August, is the result of an articulated criminal planning, carried out with the

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The story originated in June, when the victim, a jeweler at a Montecarlo company, was contacted by telephone by an intermediary who expressed his intention to act as an intermediary in the purchase of jewels on behalf of foreign customers.

This phone call was followed by various business meetings and dinners, in Sanremo and Milan, where intermediaries and buyers discussed the purchase of a batch of jewels.

The first attempt to exchange money / jewels, which took place in a hotel in the City of Flowers at the end of July, was unsuccessful, but was in fact served to credit the buyers in the eyes of the victim.

The intermediaries then organized a new meeting in August, this time in the center of Rome, in a luxurious hotel booked by the victim.

The self-styled Russian buyer showed up at the facility together with a woman who qualified as an '' expert in precious stones '', who would have had the task of choosing the precious items to buy.

The two buyers showed interest only in diamonds, agreeing to purchase 5 pieces for the sum of 1,346,000 euros.

While the Russian buyer waited at the bar, the jeweler and the woman who had accompanied him to his room went up to a hotel room in order to verify the authenticity of the jewelry.

Once in the room, the seller placed them on the bed and the woman chose 5 out of 6, putting all the ones she had selected inside some velvet bags and then placed them back inside a caramel-colored bag wrapping them with ribbon. packaging, asking the jeweler to get her a pen to seal the wrapper.

Catching the victim's moment of distraction, the woman exchanged the purses, putting another one containing reproductions in the place of the one containing the real jewels, and inviting the seller to put it back in the safe in the room.

Immediately afterwards the jeweler went down with the woman into the hall and joined the Russian buyer, who in the meantime had left the hotel to fetch a blue bag, containing the consideration in bundles of 200 euro banknotes.

The man invited her to keep the bag as a guarantee while waiting to complete the payment operations, after which, upon their return, they would collect the jewels from the safe and count the bundles of banknotes contained in the bag.

While the two were leaving the hotel, the injured party immediately went to her room and after having waited in vain for their return, opened the bag they had left her, noting inside it numerous banknotes of the denomination of 200 euros, bearing, however , the facsimile on one side.

She immediately went to the safe to check the jewels, realizing that the authentications had been replaced with copies.       

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Investigations and arrests

The investigators of the Trevi Campo Marzio District, thanks to a careful analysis of the material at their disposal and with the precious contribution of the specialized staff of the Scientific Police of the local Police Headquarters, identified 2 suspects;

a 28-year-old woman of Romanian origin and a 27-year-old Croatian boy.

The investigations made it possible to identify a large sedan used in the crime and, subsequently, also a possible home used by the suspects.

After a long series of investigations, the policemen searched the said house in the Balduina area in Rome, inside which, in addition to the 28-year-old, there were two other people.

The same shoes and the same designer dress were found in the wardrobe, worth about 3,000 euros, worn by the woman inside the hotel during the theft;

Numerous valuable watches were found in the house, various jewels and gold '' tennis '' bracelets, various materials used for rip-deal scams and bitcoin scams, numerous mobile phones, telephone cards, laptops, various wads of banknotes from 200 euros with the facsimile wording (about 350,000 euros), counterfeit stamps and counterfeit identity documents concerning which the compulsory arrest in the act of crime of a 41-year-old Serbian citizen and a 72-year-old Italian RM The three pre-precautionary measures were then validated by the competent GIP.