3 Mexican men kept talking with salesman at an exhibition stall while a Venezuelan woman flicked the stones
Three men and a woman, all foreigners, posing as businessmen did a clean con job and flicked diamonds worth Rs6.6 crore from a diamond exhibition at the NSE grounds in Goregoan on Monday.
The security at the Indian International Jewellery Show was top-class, at least the police thought so. And the group thought they had it all as they had given security guards outside the exhibition the slip, surpassed frisking at the Mumbai airport, and had even taken a flight to Dubai.
But the Mumbai Police played spoilsport for them. Guerrero Lugo Elvia Grissel, 24, Campos Molan Elias, 39, Gonzalez Madlonado Mauricio, 24, all Mexicans, and a Venezuelan woman, Gutierez Orlando, were detained at Dubai airport on Tuesday. They had planned to flee to Germany.
Their game was up within hours of their taking the flight to Dubai. The police relayed a message to Dubai through the Interpol. And the four could do little as the CCTVs at the venue had everything on record. CCTV footages from the venue and the airport were matched and the gang identified.
“The footages are crucial,” Himanshu Roy, joint commissioner of police, crime branch, said. “We could quickly identify the culprits.”
Roy said that a local court had issued non-bailable warrants against the four. “The Dubai police have informally told us that the diamonds have been recovered.” A team of crime branch officers left for Dubai on Tuesday morning. They would soon return with the four culprits, Roy said.
Another officer said the theft occurred at 3.30pm at the stall of Israeli company Dalumi Group. While the three men talked with the salesman, the woman flicked a box containing diamonds and slipped it into her purse.
A couple of hours later, the organisers alerted the police. The police went through the CCTV recordings at the stall and matched the faces of the culprits with that of the footage at the entry point. They got the names of the four people and alerted the railways and the airport authorities, the officer said.
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