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INTERPOL Issues Red Notices for Suspects in $1 BILLION Dresden Green Vault Robbery

(credit: interpol.int)  INTERPOL   International Red Notice wanted persons alerts for Mohamed and Abdul Majed Remmo, who are believed to be part of a criminal family network, have now been circulated to all 194 members countries.

By Gary Raynaldo      DIPLOMATIC  TIMES

The International Criminal Police Organization  (INTERPOL)  has issued Red Notices for twin brothers suspected of involvement in the Dresden Green Vault robbery.  The Red Notices were made at the request of German authorities. International wanted persons alerts for Mohamed and Abdul Majed Remmo, who are believed to be part of a criminal family network, have now been circulated to all 194 members countries. The 21-year-olds are wanted for aggravated gang robbery and arson following the heist in the early hours of Monday 25 November, 2019 when more than a dozen diamond-encrusted items were stolen. Thieves broke into the museum after setting a fire at a nearby electrical junction box, causing a power outage. Two suspects were caught on CCTV footage smashing the display case that housed the jewels, with the robbers fleeing in a car which was later found burnt out. Four security guards employed at Dresden’s Royal Palace are under investigation over their alleged involvement in a huge theft of 18th-century jewellery, according to German prosecutors. The INTERPOL notices were issued following a series of raids in Berlin on Tuesday 17 November 2020 in which three people suspected of involvement in the jewel theft were taken into custody. A 49-carat diamond estimated to be worth up to £9m was among over a dozen jewel-encrusted items snatched from a German state museum in a spectacular robbery.   Last week, German police raided apartments across Berlin and detained three people on suspected of involvement in a spectacular  jewel heist of diamonds estimated to be worth as much as $1 billion at a museum housing one of Europe’s greatest collections of treasures.

(credit: interpol.int)  After the robbery,  INTERPOL  published a special poster to highlight the theft of the 18th-century jewels, details of which were also added to the INTERPOL Stolen Works of Art Database.

How did the robbery unfold?  CCTV Shows Thieves Smashing into  Jewelry Cabinet at Museum 

(credit: interpol.int)  Two suspects were caught on CCTV footage smashing the display case that housed the jewels

Anyone with information about the location of these individuals, or the stolen items, is advised to contact the Bundeskriminalamt (German Federal Criminal Police) or INTERPOL’s Fugitives unit.

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