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Floyd R. Turbo

(26,546 posts)
Wed Feb 5, 2020, 05:12 PM Feb 2020

$60,000,000. That's right, $66,000,000! 💷💷💷💷💷💷💷💷💷💷

LONDON (AP) — A mother and son from Romania made their first court appearance Saturday after being charged in the December theft of millions of pounds’ (dollars’) worth of jewelry from the home of heiress Tamara Ecclestone.

The burglary took place on Dec. 13 at Ecclestone’s palatial home on one of London’s most exclusive streets in the Kensington neighborhood. She is the daughter of former Formula 1 chief Bernie Ecclestone.

Deluxe jewelry estimated to be worth abuut 50 million pounds ($66 million) was taken from her home, leaving her “angry and shaken,” the family said in a statement at the time.

Cleaner Maria Mester, 47, and bar worker Emil-Bogdan Savastru, 29, each were charged with conspiracy to commit burglary.

https://apnews.com/976f70b778d9bd66ce2bfe9b1b9099c7

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