A theft of diamonds worth an estimated $25 million during last year’s edition of the renowned Dutch art fair TEFAF (The European Fine Art Fair) is now suspected to have been done by a Balkan Gang known as the “Pink Panthers”.
According to sources in the Limburg police department, quoted in the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, the Pink Panthers – that could number anywhere between 30 to 800 members – are responsible for several diamond and jewelry heists around the world since 2001, including in Dubai, Tokyo, and Greece.
The TEFAF heist was done in broad daylight. The thieves walked in the compound wearing newsboy hats, broke open cases from the British jewel company Symbolic & Chase, and got away on electric scooters. Only one diamond has been recovered since.
