Kathmandu. Dubai, the bright city of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), is in the headlines due to a major theft incident. A rare pink diamond worth rs 3.5 billion was stolen in Dubai. The incident caused a stir all over the world.
The world’s most precious and rare pink diamond disappeared without a trace. Let’s say it never existed. This extraordinary theft also took place in a very filmy manner in which thieves had planned to steal diamonds for a year. However, a year’s hard work of the thieves was wasted within a few hours due to the promptness of dubai police. The diamond was recovered before leaving Dubai.
About a year ago, three thieves of Asian descent received news of a rare pink diamond. They plan to steal it. A diamond merchant was in Europe during the plan. A year later, the businessman had to come to Dubai. In the meantime, the thieves had a long time of a year to plan the theft and they planned to execute the theft very carefully.
The 21-carat pink diamond, classified as a fancy intense, is considered the purest diamond of its kind and the rarest worldwide. The price of this diamond is $ 2.5 crore (about Rs 3.47 billion). Which was recently brought to Dubai from Europe.
The accuracy assessment of this diamond is also unique. “It is so rare that the chances of finding another diamond like this are only 0.01 per cent,” officials said. ’
The thieves made a big plan to steal diamonds. According to Dubai Police, the “extraordinary” incident of theft was committed by a group of three thieves from a diamond merchant. How the thieves planned to steal the pink diamond. During the investigation, Dubai Police found that the theft had been planned for more than a year. According to the plan, the thieves played the role of a middleman for a wealthy diamond buyer. They then contacted the diamond trader. Who came to Dubai from Europe with a rare diamond.
The diamond traders have been trading in diamonds since 2005. However, the thieves weaved such a net of money that even the experienced businessmen fell into their trap and the thieves fled with diamonds.
The thieves took the diamond merchant completely into their confidence before stealing. They hired luxury cars to show the businessman their customer’s property and in the meantime used to come to meet the diamond merchant. They held meetings with diamond merchants in five-star luxury hotels to sign a diamond purchase agreement and convinced the diamond merchant that their customers were very wealthy.
In order to win the trust of the merchant, the thieves also hired a diamond expert so that the trader could believe that they really wanted to buy diamonds. After all this, the trader finally agreed to bring diamonds for sale from his shop. The thieves did their job so cleanly that the diamond merchant was convinced that he was dealing with the real deal.
The thieves then called the businessman to a luxurious private villa on the pretext of buying diamonds. As soon as the trader reached the villa with the diamond, the thieves snatched the diamond from him and fled with a wink. The diamond merchant was surprised to see this. He immediately made an emergency call to dubai police. He told the police, “A big incident has happened to me. I had come to meet a customer so that I could sell him diamonds. The man saw the diamond and now stole it and fled. ’
As soon as the news of the rare diamond theft was received, the police became alert. Within a few minutes, a police patrol team was sent to the spot. A quick investigation began. Dubai police launched ‘Operation Pink Diamond’ to find diamonds. Dubai Police’s Criminal Investigation and Criminology Department led the operation.
A special task force was deployed to nab the thieves. Advanced surveillance and tracking techniques were used to search for them. Preliminary investigation revealed that the thieves were living together before the theft took place. However, after fleeing the villa, they spread to different parts of the city.
Authorities raided the places simultaneously to search for the thieves and arrested the three thieves. The thieves were trying to send the diamond out of Dubai, but before that dubai police found it.
Thieves hid the pink diamond inside a small refrigerator. They were going to smuggle it to an Asian country. As a result of prompt police action, the diamond was safely recovered within eight hours of the theft and returned to its owner.
The diamond owner is very happy to get the diamond. “Seeing the pace of work of the officials, I understood that this issue will be resolved. I was surprised that the theft had taken place at night and i got a call the next morning. The suspects have been arrested and diamonds have been recovered. ’
