STORY: Antwerp, Belgium – one of the largest diamond trading hubs in the world – has a Russia problem. It was only a few weeks after Russian troops invaded Ukraine last year when diamond firms in ...

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ANTWERP, Belgium — Authorities investigating a major jewel heist last month here in the diamond-trading capital of the world now estimate that the thieves got away with $100 million in gems. That ...

Thieves emptied 123 of 160 vaults over the weekend at a Belgian diamond-trading center in what officials said might be the largest theft ever in Antwerp, the gem-trading capital of the world.

Led by Leonardo Notarbartolo, the men came to be known as the School of Turin, who operated under the aliases of Speedy, the Monster, the Genius and the King of Keys Four of the five men were caught ...

(AP) Sunday’s theft of diamond jewelry in France estimated at $136 million appears to be the largest such heist in recent history. Here are some other major examples. February 2013: Some $50 million ...