A woman was fined only $332 after she stole a diamond worth 4 million pounds. I know why
Amman Today
publish date 1970-01-01 03:00:00
A British court has fined a woman $332 after she stole a diamond worth $6 million, equivalent to approximately 4 million pounds, and replaced it with “pebbles.” The 60-year-old woman, Lulu Lakatos, is also serving a prison sentence. For five and a half years, she was convicted of conspiracy to rob in 2021, according to the British newspaper, The Guardian.
The Southwark Crown Court heard the woman who said she impersonated Anna, a gem expert, and alleged that wealthy buyers sent her to examine seven diamonds in the jewelry store. Boodles In the upscale Mayfair district, which is located in the west of the British capital, London, and at the time, the store agreed with her to put the diamonds in a wallet fitted with a lock and keep them in the store’s basement until the money is transferred.
Guardian newspaper report
While surveillance cameras in the store’s basement recorded the moment the wallet was put into Lulu’s handbag and exchanged for a replica in 2016, less than three hours after the switch, Lulu and her co-owners fled the UK to France. He opened the wallet in the store safe, inside was seven small pebbles, and the store did not manage to retrieve the real diamonds.
According to the newspaper The GuardianDuring a hearing on the proceeds of crime, it was said that Lulu Lakatos, a Romanian-born and raised in Saint-Brieuc, in the French province of Brittany, was expected to be extradited to France..
While the court’s decision stated that the only amount available with her to pay was 293 euros (about $332), which was found with her when she was arrested, and for his part, Judge Alexander Milne said: “With regard to the numbers, there is a stark contrast between the amount of usufruct of £4,299,671 ($5,845,058), £244 ($332) available.
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