A man from Eindhoven was on trial before the court in Dresden on Tuesday because he allegedly defrauded the Grünes Gewölbe museum for 40,000 euros. Marcus van N. promised to bring back looted art treasures. but he ran off with the tip money, De Telegraaf reports.
The museum was robbed in 2019. Jewelery with a value of more than 100 million euros was stolen. The museum director offered a high reward for golden tips.
The man from Eindhoven pretended to be a diamond trader from Antwerp. He asked according to De Telegraaf that two Chechens had presented the missing jewels to him. He managed to convince the authorities and in a Belgian hotel he received the tip money, but he never got over the bridge with a tip or with the stolen gems.
“It was all made up,” Van N. said today, in a confession he made in court. He easily found details about the stolen jewels on the internet, and he got his knowledge of diamonds from his parents who owned a jewelery shop. It was ‘very easy’ to scam the others.
If it is up to the German Justice, the man from Eindhoven must go to prison for four years.