The Greatest Diamond Heist of All Time Was Foiled By a Salami Sandwich

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Just 6 months before Notarbartolo even considered pulling off this heist, he decided to rent out a small apartment in Antwerp. He purchased a few diamonds, in cash, and rented out a storage unit in a bank vault that stored hundreds of millions of dollars worth of jewels, cash, gold, and other precious metals. This unit in this particular bank just so happened to be the wealthiest, and most difficult to rob, storage unit in the entire world...

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