Up to $5 million in diamonds stolen
RAM-RAIDERS broke through the window of a high-end diamond & jewelry store in Sydney yesterday, the managed to walk away with up to $5 million in rare pink diamonds.
The thieves used a white stolen four-wheel drive Nissan to smash through the back of the Mondial Neuman store in the
The store’s manager Michael Neuman said that this was carried out with “military-style precision”. Michael said he only had a vague idea of what had been stolen. “There were many substantial items of pink diamonds and other natural-colored diamond jewelry. It’s what we’re renowned for”.
Right now Michael estimates the stolen jewelry to be worth anything between $2 and $5million. The good news he says is “There is still a lot of good stuff they didn’t get”. Staff members had just begun to open the business for the day when the car drove through the window. Luckily no one was hurt.
Adam Selim, who works in the Queen
The owners of the vehicle, Tony and Jenny Duddy, said it was stolen from their Drummoyne home. “We’re not all the sure on what time they came- some time in the middle of the night,” said Mr. Duddy, who was the one to discover the vehicle’s whereabouts after reading about the robbery on the Internet. It doesn’t look as if there is much damage according to the police and there was nobody hurt which is the most important thing.
A woman working next door to the jewelers saw the dramas unfold. “I was going upstairs to the stock room when I saw the car pull up,” she said. “ It mounted the curb and I just thought it was a bad driver. Then I saw a guy who was masked jump out of the back seat and move a café table out of the way. The car rammed into the window.” She said the man went back to the car to retrieve a bag out of the back seat before entering the store. A security guard tried to stop the robbers by standing in front of their getaway car, a red Audi sedan.