(IDEX Online) - Four defendants in the 2103 diamond heist at Brussels Airport were yesterday acquitted on appeal.
It follows the acquittal of 18 other defendants in a 2018 trial and means just one person has been convicted and jailed over the theft of diamonds valued at the time at $50m.
The appeals court in Brussels ruled there was insufficient evidence to convict the four.
The shipment of 120 diamond parcels was stolen as it was being loaded onto a Helvetic Airways plane bound for Zurich in February 2013.
Eight men dressed as police officers and armed with machine guns crashed through an airport perimeter fence in two vans as a security team was loading the cargo on the plane.
None of the passengers was aware of theft, no shots were fired and nobody was hurt.