PINK PANTERS SENTENCED TO 28 AND A HALF YEARS IN PRISON: He was the ‘brain’ of a robbery worth 26 million pounds!
The organizers of the biggest robbery of the rich and famous in the history of Great Britain were caught thanks to street cameras. The mastermind of the operation in which money and movable property worth around twenty-six million pounds were stolen is Jugoslav Jovanović, a twenty-four-year-old Italian citizen. A court in West London sentenced him to eleven years in prison.
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His accomplices and jewelry theft specialists, Italians Alessandro Maltese (45) and Alessandro Donati (44), should serve eight years and nine months behind bars each. All three will serve prison sentences in Italy, where they will be extradited after the end of the administrative part of the criminal procedure. The fourth member of the gang, Danijel Vukovic, is a citizen of the Republic of Serbia.
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The British police believe that this forty-four-year-old fled to Belgrade, where, according to the British media, he is probably still there. The British tabloid San also mentions the “failed attempt” to extradite Vukovic to the United Kingdom. Police in Britain suspect that Vukovic, and not Jovanovic, is the main organizer of the spectacular robberies in London.
Thirteen winter days of looting
The four were convicted for robbing the villas of the heiress of the wealth of Formula 1 owner Tamara Ecclestone, former English national football team player Frank Lampard and the late owner of the Leicester City football club Vishaya Srivadanaprabe during thirteen days from November 29 to December 18, 2019.
The biggest booty is certainly the robbery of the villa of 37-year-old Tamara Ecclestone and her husband, gallery owner Jay Rutland. Several hundred pieces of valuable jewelry and cash were taken away. The total value of this robbery is estimated at 25 million pounds.
Frank Lampard and his wife, TV presenter Kristin, were left without watches, worth around sixty thousand pounds. Metropolitan police believe that the gang was preparing new robberies of the rich and famous across Europe and new robberies in Britain itself. Police declined to disclose the identities of the planned victims. The lion’s share of the prey was not found.
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It is only known that the gang stole so much cash that Jovanović spent around sixty-six thousand pounds in the exclusive department store Harods alone.
“The fact that so many items were stolen despite the owner’s precautionary measures, as well as that these items were taken out of the country and not found, speaks in favor of the organization, planning and determination of criminals, as well as readiness for high risk,” said Judge Martin Edmunds. pronounced a verdict.
Trauma after the robbery of the century
During the sentencing, Judge Martin Edmunds pointed out that the targets were chosen because of their great wealth, but also pointed out that “the trauma of the robbed is no less because they are rich and famous.”
“Especially important is the trauma that children or members of robbed households went through due to concerns for their safety,” Judge Edmunds pointed out.
Tamara Ecclestone, who was skiing in Lapland with her family at the time of the robbery, swore that she would never leave her daughter alone. Bernie Ecclestone’s heiress said in an interview for one of the British televisions that she is literally afraid of every shadow, and that her child does not even go to the toilet.
“It’s a strange feeling to know that these people touched the photos of my child, which were on top of the jewelry chest. I feel physically attacked,” says Tamara Ecclestone, emphasizing that the safety of the family has become her obsession.
In a press release, the Lampard couple points out that they have trouble sleeping from the robbery until today. ” life and real victims, who have suffered a lot. “
Who met the “Pink Panthers”?
Metropolitan police reveal that the gang was caught so that the cameras noticed that the four from the Ecclestone villa escaped in an ordinary London black taxi. At that time, there were over a thousand such vehicles in the wider area of the robbery site. Police finally managed to locate the driver, who testified to which hotel he drove the perpetrators, as well as to identify them. Police point out that the four celebrated the opening of the Ecclestone safe at the scene by opening a champagne worth five hundred pounds.
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