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Authors: SCOTT ANDREW SELBY

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Sapphires,
28
,
74
,
132

Sargent & Greenleaf,
10
,
89

Scelza, Pasquale,
181
,
287
n181

Schadler, Jay,
193

School of Turin

assuredness over Antwerp Diamond Center,
45–46
coining,
32
dividing loot,
152–153
,
213
emptying safe deposit boxes,
124–129
entering vault,
118–119
Leonardo Notarbartolo as member,
35
lock specialists,
43
luck turning against,
145
members,
35
,
92–93
,
108–109
as men of honor,
133
methods,
32–33
,
59–60
moving to Antwerp,
101–102
no violence code,
57
opening LIPS vault door,
120–121
perfecting locks,
100
plotting meetings,
57
police rounding up,
180–181
reputation of,
34–35
resting,
111
setting heist date,
103
SIM card used by,
114
sorting loot,
125–126
Tavano as member,
182–183
technology and,
119
time window for,
84
victims of,
126–127

Score, The,
84

Secure Antwerp Diamond Area (SADA),
xiv
,
11
,
52–53

Securilink,
84
,
87
,
98
,
106-107

Security

in Antwerp Diamond Center,
xii–xiv
,
4
,
6
,
37
,
161
among bourses,
51
bubble in ADA,
12
Diamond Square Mile,
7
failure of human,
121

Seko, Mobutu Sésé,
152

Sellers, Peter,
63

September 11 terrorist attacks,
65
,
217

Sherman Antitrust Act,
70

Shroud of Turin,
27

Sierra Leone,
64

Sightholders,
71
,
74
,
265–266
n71

Sights,
71
,
74
,
127

SIM card,
57
,
153

as evidence,
175
,
182
,
184
,
189
School of Turin using,
114

Smuggling,
63

Société Générale bank diamond heist,
58–59

Soldiers of fortune,
63

South Africa,
68–71

Spaggiari, Albert,
58–60

Spies,
63

Spurgo, Giovanni,
35
,
181

“Stamp,”
19

La Stampa,
154
,
192
,
200

De Standaard,
188

Stock certificates,
131

Surowicz, Simon,
193–194
,
222

Swayze, Patrick,
64

Syndicate,
70

Tann,
10
,
51
,
89

Tanzanite,
74

Tavano, Pietro,
35
,
57
,
122
,
229

arrest of,
209
conviction of,
204
as driver,
115–116
,
272
n115
fortune of,
234
in prison,
209
release of,
231
as School of Turin member,
182–183
trial of in absentia,
199

Tax avoidance,
159

Theunis, Ben,
196–198

Thieves,
4
,
20
,
113–114
.
See also
Burglars
;
Diamond heists
;
Robbery
;
School of Turin

Torino FC,
24
,
80

Tourmaline,
74

Trana,
30
,
56
,
155–156

Tribunal de Première Instance,
188

Turin,
8–9
. See also
School of Turin

architecture,
21–22
cafés,
80
history of,
23
mystical nature,
25–26
as organized crime stronghold,
22
,
24
Shroud of Turin,
27

Underdog Inc.,
221–222

Van Camp, August (“Gust”),
201

discovering robbery trash,
141–146
seeking reward,
218–220

Vanderkelen, Gerry,
162–164
,
168

Verhaeghe, Dirk,
208

Verwaest, Jean-Charles,
188

Viccei, Valerio,
39
,
58

Vidal, Fay (“Madame Vidal”),
49
,
54
,
225–226

at crime scene,
139–140
on Leonardo Notarbartolo,
165
recovering stolen items,
211
as robbery victim,
126
,
137

Vrije Diamanthandel,
50–51

Washington Post,
64–65

Williams, Venus,
103
,
143

Wired
magazine,
222–230

World Federation of Diamond Bourses,
50
,
212

Yellow canaries,
127
,
275
n127

Zwiep, Judith,
158
,
166–167
,
174

alibi of,
187
bail for,
189

in police custody,
169–170

prison detainment,
178–179
as suspect,
177

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Scott Andrew Selby
is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Harvard Law School. He also has a master’s degree in Human Rights and Intellectual Property Law from Sweden’s Lund University, where he wrote his thesis on diamonds. He is licensed to practice law in California and New York.

Greg Campbell
is an award-winning journalist and the author of
Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World’s Most Precious Stones
and
The Road to Kosovo:
A
Balkan Diary. Blood Diamonds
was used as the primary resource for the Academy Award-nominated film
Blood Diamond.
His work has appeared in the
Economist,
the
Wall Street Journal Magazine,
the
Christian Science Monitor,
and the
San Francisco Chronicle.
He lives with his family in Fort Collins, Colorado.

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www.FlawlessBook.com
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