Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History (53 page)
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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
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
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
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
“Stamp,”
19
De Standaard,
188
Stock certificates,
131
Swayze, Patrick,
64
Syndicate,
70
Tanzanite,
74
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
Tourmaline,
74
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
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
Wired
magazine,
222–230
World Federation of Diamond Bourses,
50
,
212
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.
Visit
www.FlawlessBook.com
for more information about the Antwerp Diamond Heist, photos from research trips to key locations in Belgium and Italy, news updates about the case, and more.
