(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) – The Dubai Police have recovered a diamond estimated to be worth $20 million which was stolen and smuggled to Sri Lanka.
The diamond was stolen by a Sri Lankan who worked as security guard and pulled off a near-impossible theft from the vault of the company he worked in. A police team recovered the rare blue diamond from Sri Lanka, Khaleej Times reported.
After stealing the 9.33-carat diamond, the suspect handed it over to his relative to smuggle it in a shoe by sea. A video of the investigation released by the police shows an officer taking the sports shoe out of its box and recovering the pouch containing the diamond that is hidden inside.
The police arrested the Sri Lankan suspect, who was holed up in a neighbouring emirate after switching off his phone. Tracing him was no mean task as the police had to scour through more than 8,620 hours of surveillance camera footages and question over 120 people.
Colonel Mohammed Aqil Ahli, deputy director of the department of criminal investigation, said the police were notified about the daring theft from the company’s vault at its headquarters in Jebel Ali.
The company officials were baffled by the crime, as the suspect had to go through multiple layers of security gates to get to the vault.
