Two Montenegrins wanted over Ginza jewelry robbery
Japan is seeking two Montenegrin men who carried out a jewelry heist in Tokyo back in 2004:
Metropolitan Police Department’s Organized Crime Control Section (OCCS) placed Hadziahmetovic Rifat, 40, and Jelusic Radovan, 38, on the list for assault and robbery.
The pair is accused of walking into a Ginza jewelry store on June 14, 2007, posing as customers, before spraying three female shop assistants in the face with tear gas. They made off with a diamond tiara and a necklace — worth a total of 284 million yen.
According to the OCCS, the pair allegedly belongs to a gang of European international jewelry thieves, known as “the Pink Panthers.”
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