The heist, later featured in the film GoodFellas, was among the largest in American history.
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But compared with the total annual trade in illicit goods, the heist was small change.
Sorge said investigators have "no leads, not a single clue" in the investigation of the heist.
Gentile's lawyer, A. Ryan McGuigan, said at the time that Gentile testified before a grand jury investigating the heist.
Law-enforcement officials in Geneva said that they had detained two people late Tuesday on suspicion of involvement in the heist.
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He said Gentile knows nothing about the heist but was acquainted with people federal authorities believe may have been involved.
The Italian media have described the heist as a paramilitary-style operation that brought something of the Wild West to the autostrada.
The heist passed so quickly and quietly that travelers on the plane and inside the terminal barely knew what had happened.
Law-enforcement officials in Geneva said separately that they detained two people late Tuesday on suspicion of involvement in the heist and questioned six others.
Swiss International Air Lines, for which Helvetic operated the flight, said in a statement that the heist "was evidently aimed at valuables" on the plane, including diamonds.
Law-enforcement officials in Geneva said that they had detained two people late Tuesday on suspicion of involvement in the heist and questioned six others, who were later released.
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Louis Scarcella, one of the detectives who investigated the case, told CNN that Ranta admitted his involvement in the heist attempt and that he stands by the arrest.
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The heist one of the biggest diamond robberies in history occurred just after a shipment of diamonds from Antwerp, a leading diamond center, was loaded onto the Swiss International Air Lines flight.
The following day, he flew to Athens, where, regretting the heist, he sent an anonymous email to the gallery saying it would be returned by mail, according to the court records.
Despite the occasional dumb fun -- especially with the heist portions -- the leap of logic required to make it all work is enough to leave your brain pancaked on the sidewalk.
The inquiry heard HMCE told the police it had learned the gang had a plan to rob some Colombian drug dealers in Edgware on 5 April but the heist did not go ahead.
The heist of bank deposits in Cyprus and the corporate bailouts in the United States a few years ago are the bitter, logical fruit of ideologies that exalt government power above property rights.
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The heist one of the biggest diamond robberies in history occurred just after a shipment of diamonds from Antwerp, a leading diamond center, was loaded onto the Swiss International Air Lines flight, which was being operated by Helvetic Airways.
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The heist one of the biggest diamond robberies in history occurred just after a shipment of diamonds from Antwerp, a leading diamond center, was loaded onto the Swiss International Air Lines flight, which was being operated by Helvetica Airways.
WSJ: Police Detain Suspects in Brussels Airport Diamond Heist
Following the heist, the men quit their delivery jobs, purchased diamond-studded Yankee earrings and matching cars, and then were promptly apprehended when the hastily-wrapped reams of paper they sent instead of the phones were spotted in Cathay.
It is not known if any of the diamonds stolen in the heist were marked in this way and as former gem broker Christopher Hourmouzios stresses, "whatever is cut on to a diamond can be taken off it".
Most members of the heist crew are highly enjoyable, including the elderly fraudster Saul played by Carl Reiner, the bickering brothers Turk and Virgil (Scott Caan and Casey Affleck), and the wonderfully camp Mr Big who is bankrolling the job, Reuben Tishkoff (Elliot Gould).
In the 2003 heist, the vault was thought to be impregnable in part because of the surrounding high security of the Antwerp diamond district.
After all, the bank heist was in the 1970s and this is 2012, and we have iPhones and the Internet and you can get all sorts of anatomical parts enhanced these days.
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Under questioning, Ranta gave a signed statement admitting that he had helped plan the botched heist and was at the scene shortly before it occurred, according to court documents.
Connor was behind bars at the time of the Gardner heist--for another art heist--but claimed he could locate the art if released.
John Schofield confirmed that it was indeed the Brenda Heist he had been searching for since 2002.
The brazen heist is Europe's highest-value and most dramatic tarmac holdup in a decade, said aviation security specialists.
"Head of a Woman, " painted in 1939, was among three works taken in the early morning heist on Monday, the authorities said.
The spokeswoman said Antwerp diamond merchants are "concerned" by the airport heist.
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