Read Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History Online
Authors: SCOTT ANDREW SELBY
Tags: #Fiction, #General, #Murder, #History, #Non-Fiction, #Art, #Business & Economics, #True Crime, #Case studies, #Industries, #Robbery, #Diamond industry and trade, #Antwerp, #Jewelry theft, #Retailing, #Diamond industry and trade - Belgium - Antwerp, #Jewelry theft - Belgium - Antwerp, #Belgium, #Robbery - Belgium - Antwerp
Gold,
xiii
coins,
125–126
jewelry,
28
,
125–127
smelting,
213–214
,
297
n214
Gotti, John,
8
Government bonds,
131
Graphite,
66–67
Grote Markt,
14
Grünberger, Marcel,
42–43
,
54
,
150
,
162–163
,
220
as Antwerp Diamond Center owner,
5
knowing vault combination,
119
safe doors and,
91
Gunrunners,
63
Hannibal,
23
“Heist of the century,”
153
,
194
,
220
,
231
Highland bandits of Central India,
113
Hollywood Reporter,
213
HRD.
See
Diamond High Council (HRD)
Il pizzo,
25
Internal Revenue Service (IRS),
65
International Criminal Court,
63
Italian gangs,
114
Italian Job, The,
84
Jewelry designers,
8
,
56–57
,
73–74
,
217
KBC bank,
149
Kidnapping,
59–60
Knightsbridge Safe Deposit Centre diamond heist,
39
,
58
,
242
,
245
Kortleven, Patrick,
204
,
292n199
Kuklinski, Richard (“The Iceman”),
8
Lambeaux, Jef,
14
Lens Building,
17
Liddy, G. Gordon,
78
defeating,
96
masking,
121
,
138
setting off,
88
workings of,
95
LIPS vault door,
4–5
,
20
,
40
,
43
,
51
,
86
,
91
auto scramble,
120
School of Turin opening,
120–121
Loot
diamonds,
214–215
D’Onorio keeping,
215–216
estimated value,
212–213
,
247
n2
Finotto keeping,
215–216
Leonardo Notarbartolo keeping,
215–216
as lost,
233
School of Turin dividing,
152–153
,
213
School of Turin sorting,
125–126
victims recovering,
210–212
,
296
n212
“Magic Moment,”
181
Martens jewelry,
181
patience of,
22
as police Mobile Squadron director,
21
,
25
,
153
Max Diamonds,
36
Mazel und broche,
48
Milan,
152–153
Mining.
See
Diamond mining
Monte dei Paschi di Siena bank,
92
analyzing,
93–95
bypassing,
20
calibrating,
29
filming,
40–41
legal requirements,
52
masking,
92–93
,
96
,
109–110
,
122
,
127
,
138
,
271
n109
setting off,
88
studying,
34–35
technology,
93–95
Nassour, Aziz,
65
Notarbartolo, Francesco,
155–156
Notarbartolo, Leonardo
Antonino Falleti as friend,
182–183
,
188–189
Antwerp apartment,
9–10
arrogance of,
26–27
badge of,
105
bail for,
195–196
becoming operational,
5–6
booking of,
177–178
Boost stalling,
163–165
casing Antwerp Diamond Center,
1
,
60
as charming,
1–2
confidence of,
8
,
55
conviction of,
204
,
206
counting closed-circuit television cameras,
17–18
in den of thieves,
113–114
diamonds confiscated,
232–233
evidence against,
180
,
185
expertise,
77
filming Antwerp Diamond Center,
39–41
,
95
final preparations by,
110
,
112–113
first crimes,
26–27
as forgettable,
9–10
fortune of,
234
garage door reconnaissance,
82–83
hang-outs,
32
home of,
56–57
,
155–156
on infiltration crew,
115–116
inspecting vaults,
19–20
,
40–41
,
78–79
in isolation,
178
as jewelry designer,
8
,
56–57
,
217
as last person in vault,
79
late nights in Antwerp Diamond Center,
80
leaving Antwerp,
133
loot kept by,
215–216
love of food,
56
as “the Man of Gold,”
192
,
197
observation powers,
98
office hours,
18