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The police announced on Wednesday that the 59-year-old, who was wanted under a European arrest warrant, was arrested on the holiday island of Ibiza on Tuesday. A car in which the wanted man was sitting in the passenger seat was pursued for several kilometers and finally forced to stop, it was said. The robbery that the man is accused of took place on February 25, 2005 at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam. The arrested man and other people stole “jewelry and diamonds worth a good $72 million,” according to the police. The perpetrators used firearms and acted “with great violence”. According to media reports, it was one of the largest and most spectacular jewelry thefts in history.
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The accused has already been sentenced to several years in prison
It is not the first arrest of the alleged mastermind of the crime. The man was arrested with five other people in Valencia in eastern Spain in 2017, the newspaper “El País” and other media reported. At that time he was extradited to the Netherlands and sentenced there to several years in prison in 2019. However, he was able to escape after being released pending the outcome of the appeal proceedings requested by his lawyers.
During the arrest, the Spanish police noted that the man had “physically changed significantly compared to the photos available.” “The arrested man looks much younger and thinner, therefore the possibility that he has undergone surgery to change his appearance is not ruled out,” it said.
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