Vienna museum diamond heist: Thieves steal Queen Nazli’s $4.3M necklace
- Austrian police are searching for a pair of brazen thieves who made off with a diamond necklace — once owned by an Egyptian queen and worth millions — by smashing a display case at a Vienna museum in broad daylight.
- But unloading the hot rocks stolen last week from the Museum of Applied Arts, known as MAK, could be their undoing, art heist experts said Monday.
- “Just like with paintings, it’s hard to sell well-known pieces of jewelry,” said Anthony Amore, a Boston-based art theft expert and investigator.
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- Austrian police are searching for a pair of brazen thieves who made off with a diamond necklace — once owned by an Egyptian queen and worth millions — by smashing a display case at a Vienna museum in broad daylight.
- But unloading the hot rocks stolen last week from the Museum of Applied Arts, known as MAK, could be their undoing, art heist experts said Monday.
- “Just like with paintings, it’s hard to sell well-known pieces of jewelry,” said Anthony Amore, a Boston-based art theft expert and investigator.
Sources: NBC News