New York Jewellers “Paid Men to Rob Shop Dressed as Chassidim” for $7 Million Insurance

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jeweler-heist-chassidimA pair of New York jewellers have been charged with hiring men to dress as Chassidic Jews and pretend to rob their shop so they could claim $7 million in insurance.

Mahaveer Kankariya and Atul Shah are alleged to have arranged for the men to carry out the diamond raid on New Year’s Eve 2008.  They are said to have attempted to disable their shop’s CCTV system by pouring drain cleaner on it, but failed, resulting in potentially incriminating images being preserved.This meant authorities found footage of them emptying the safe and filling it “with empty jewellery boxes” that were “strewn around the room by the fake robbers,” prosecutors said.

“They were going broke, they tried a desperate gamble,” said Eugene Hurley, an Assistant District Attorney, at the trial in Manhattan. “They arranged a fake robbery to collect $7 million.” Prosecutors said the video footage also showed how strangely inept the theft had been. “No real robbers would ever act like these guys,” Mr Hurley said.

The scheme is said to have been discovered when Lloyds of London grew suspicious at inconsistencies in the jewellers’ accounts of the robbery.

Their lawyers said the incident, at Dialite Imports, was a real robbery.

They said there was no substantive proof that the owners were involved.

Mr Kankariya, 44, and Mr Shah, 49, are both charged with grand larceny and insurance fraud. They face up to 25 years in prison if convicted.

{The Telegraph/Matzav.com}


13 COMMENTS

  1. most of the time these goyim who dress up as chassidim look so fake it should be obivous that they are not yidden and djust dressed up. come on.

  2. “Mahaveer Kankariya and Atul Shah are alleged to have arranged for the men to carry out the diamond raid on New Year’s Eve 2008.”

    Aren’t these guys the same 2 Paki guys who do the Metro PCS commercials?

  3. “Mahaveer Kankariya and Atul Shah are alleged to have arranged for the men to carry out the diamond raid on New Year’s Eve 2008.”

    Aren’t these the same 2 guys who do the Metro PCS commercials???

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