The Pink Panthers: The Secretive Organization of the World's Top Jewel Thieves

The Underworld Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 871 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Emerging out of the breakup of Yugoslavia, the Balkans-based international thieves known as the Pink Panthers have coordinated many of the world's most lucrative heists, sometimes stealing tens of millions of dollars worth of diamonds and jewels in less than 3 minutes. Said to be disciplined, cultured and meticulously organized, they've struck in dozens of countries, often times targeting prestigious jewelry shops in daring smash-and-grabs, including an infamous Dubai robbery that involved driving an Audi through a mall. But, what, exactly, do we know about them? And who are the men that make up this secretive organization? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's that time.
0:03.0	Guess what's brewing at Starbucks?
0:05.3	You already know.
0:06.8	A dash of autumn, hints of spice,
0:09.9	with a twist of chai and pumpkin cream cold foam.
0:13.4	Wait, is that the?
0:14.5	Yep, it's the new pumpkin cream ice-chai tea latte.
0:18.6	For hot iceed and all things pumpkin spice,
0:22.3	no one does it better than Starbucks. Subject to
0:26.3	availability while stocks lost. This ain't day talk show, you're in the snack wormhole.
0:34.0	All I'm talking about is what you fancy putting in your face hole.
0:38.0	Satisfy your animal with pepperami pizza buns.
0:40.0	Two weeks had gone by in May 2003 since Prejerk Voyosievich, or Vuio for short, had arrived in London from his current hometown of Paris.
0:49.0	Vuio is an inconspicuous guy, served from a small village in Montenegro, and he was staying in a cheap
0:54.4	hotel waiting a week or so to meet another guy, a large Serbian man who was a little less inconspicuous,
1:00.0	who was also a janitor at hospital in Switzerland.
1:02.5	A buddy of Uyo is from the same town by the name of Milan
1:05.0	had connected two of them.
1:06.4	And together they bought a scooter,
1:08.0	but didn't do much else in London,
1:09.4	except pay just a little too much attention
1:11.0	to a Graf jewelry store.
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