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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Dubai, where the local time is twelve twenty am.

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Speaker 2: It's March two thousand and seven. The passengers arriving at

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Speaker 2: coming to meet with Dubai's rich and lead. Tourists here

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Speaker 2: to enjoy the parasailing, the luxury hotels, the conspicuous consumption

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Speaker 2: that Dubai is famous for. And among them is a

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Speaker 2: high end watches. They've come to Dubai to pull off

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Speaker 2: one of the most spectacular heists ever attempted from Serbia

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Speaker 2: in Eastern Europe. They're called the Pink Panthers, and this

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Speaker 2: is their story. I'm Natalia Antalava. I'm a journalist based

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Speaker 2: in Eastern Europe, and I'm going to take you into

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Speaker 2: the world of Serbia's most brazen jewel thieves, the most

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Speaker 2: daring and successful diamond thieves in the world. Thirty to

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Speaker 2: forty seconds in out they've stolen half a billion dollars

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Speaker 2: worth of valuables. Two well dressed men strolled into an

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Speaker 2: exclusive rowelry store in London and walked out with sixty

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Speaker 2: six million dollars in jewels. They called the Peak Panthers.

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Speaker 2: They're a loosely connected group of over educated, underemployed, ambitious

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Speaker 2: This is infamous international The Pink Panthers Story, Episode one

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Speaker 2: heists at the Waffe Moll. There are eight members of

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Speaker 2: it are three young thieves from the same hometown, the

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Speaker 2: Serbian city of Niche. The mastermind and leader is a

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Speaker 2: and swave with piercing green eyes. This is not the

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Speaker 2: Milan hit the world stage. Journalist Bradley Hope spent several

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Speaker 2: Street Journal. As he explains, the city of Dubai is

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Speaker 2: the perfect location for the Panthers' most brazen heist to date.

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Speaker 3: The locals are a minority in Dubai. A lot of

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Speaker 3: not to mention they have a huge tourism flow as well.

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Speaker 3: It's easy for anyone to blend in and part that's

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Speaker 2: When Bradley Hopes is Dubai has a wild West feel,

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Speaker 2: he doesn't mean that it's a lawless lie more than

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Speaker 3: You know, there's fraudsters, there's money launderers, there's Asian drug lords,

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Speaker 3: I remember there was a story about this guy. He

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Speaker 3: He went to prison, and then when he got back out,

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Speaker 2: It's also where world famous diamond dealer Lawrence Graft has

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Speaker 2: rund this glowing profile. Lawrence Graff is one of the

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Speaker 2: top names in the world of select jewelry. A half

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Speaker 2: a century he's made exclusive pieces for the welcome, the

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Speaker 2: kings and queens and heads of state. I think history

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Speaker 2: not exaggerating. His store is do indeed carry some of

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Speaker 2: the most expensive jewelry in the world. In twenty fifteen,

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Speaker 4: In the room right now. One of the least expensive

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Speaker 2: That's one over expension five carrots.

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Speaker 2: In colored diamonds. That watch is fifty five million dollars.

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Speaker 2: Fifty five million dollars for a single watch. That's an

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Speaker 2: enticing object if you're a billionaire or a jewel thief.

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Speaker 2: I first heard about the pink Panthers about a decade

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Speaker 2: They'd been practicing. The police had been investigating them, and

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Speaker 4: Well, Natalia, it says a fair amount. I mean, there

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Speaker 4: are a few things you see from the Lickenstein job.

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Speaker 4: First of all, what do they like to steal? They're

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Speaker 4: and that's diamonds for expensive jewelry and luxury watches, right.

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Speaker 2: And those are multimillion dollar time pieces.

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Speaker 4: smash and grab robbery, right. They come in, they neutralize

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Speaker 4: They figured out what they're after ahead of time, so

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Speaker 4: they smash the cases with hammers and they grab the

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Speaker 2: Sounds like a pretty well run operation, and Tony's does

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but there are some things about Dubai that are

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Speaker 2: As a land says, Dubai presents some unique logistical challenges

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Speaker 2: and so the big panthers are specific about their choice

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Speaker 2: Journalist Bradley Hope again.

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Speaker 3: It's located in the heart of the old city of Dubai.

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Speaker 3: The relatively low security compared to some of the more fancy,

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Speaker 2: The target is set a graph boutique located inside the

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Speaker 2: But they can't just carry all that loot back through

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Speaker 2: or maybe two cars. Serbian journalist Yelena Zorich is one

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Speaker 5: They had to picture in their heads exactly how everything

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Speaker 2: The Panthers spent weeks getting familiar with the city and

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Speaker 5: It was very risky, and this is why they had

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Speaker 1: How we're going to do it.

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Speaker 1: They had to feel the poles of the mall.

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Speaker 2: They make sure that they raised no suspicion at this

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Speaker 5: It was a nice apartment so they could fit in,

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Speaker 2: Each member of the Ping Panthers team has a specific

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Speaker 5: She was there for the logistics. She was there to

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Speaker 1: As a young good looking girl.

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Speaker 5: Other people from the jewelries, they didn't suspect that they

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Speaker 2: With Boyanna's help, the Panthers identify the most valuable merchandise.

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Speaker 1: Which was worth eleven million ears.

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Speaker 2: They studied the security system.

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Speaker 5: They were aware of the fact that they were security

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Speaker 2: They determined the best time of day for the robbery,

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Speaker 5: They were aware of the fact that it's very dangerous

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Speaker 2: This is an important point. The Pink Panthers take every

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Speaker 5: Interpol is not going to chase you that much if

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Speaker 2: Then they were.

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Speaker 5: Spectacular in the way they were doing it. They took

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Speaker 2: like the fancy apartment and Boyana's elegant clothes. The Panthers

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Speaker 2: not a practical decision. They're planning to put on a show.

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Speaker 2: So on the evening of the heist, as the mall

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Speaker 4: So the first thing they do is they line up

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Speaker 2: Footage from the malt security cameras captures the scene the

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Speaker 2: see this scene unfold from multiple angles. It's quite dramatic.

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Speaker 2: Boyana Mithch is behind the wheel of the black Audi.

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Speaker 2: She speeds backward down the mall corridor right up to

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Speaker 4: They slam through the glass entrance of the mall. Then

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Speaker 4: they head toward that grass store, that jewelry store, which

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Speaker 4: they load up the trunks of the cars with cement locks.

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Speaker 4: It makes the cars like battering rams. It weaponizes the car.

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Speaker 2: But tell me why is Boyana going reverse?

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Speaker 4: Because when you go and reverse, you don't set off

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Speaker 4: the air bags. When you crash through the glass doors.

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Speaker 2: Boyana into the store entrance and the surrounding wall collapses.

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Speaker 2: Melanipuya is driving the white Audi. He and Boyana stay

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Speaker 2: in their cars, engines running while their fellow panthers run

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Speaker 2: in Overhead security footage shows black clad panthers, their faces masked,

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Speaker 2: hammers in hand. At this point, a shopper at the

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Speaker 4: So it's not high definition, it's grainy, but you can

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Speaker 4: see exactly what happened if you look closely. The panthers

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Speaker 4: they're coming out of the car. They're waving pistols around.

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Speaker 2: The pistols are actually fake. It's another insurance policy. Nobody's

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Speaker 2: going to get trigger happy, no collateral damage. Cameras inside

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Speaker 2: the graph would Siek show two salesmen in suits running

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Speaker 2: He smashed the glass, reaches in and tosses the merchandise

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Speaker 2: Milan and Boyana to the others in side graph that

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Speaker 2: twenty seconds have passed. It's time to go. Cameras inside

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Speaker 2: graph show the ping panthers file out one by one.

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Speaker 4: They run out of the store with a loot, and

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Speaker 4: carefully as they're driving away, you can see something smashing

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Speaker 4: the pieces of another world. So that's a shopper who's

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Speaker 4: watching from the balcony above had thrown down a plastic chair,

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Speaker 4: which is kind of a heroic act but also a

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Speaker 4: lame attempt to stop the thieves. Obviously would not have

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Speaker 2: And off, they go past the overhead security cameras and

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Speaker 4: From the very start to the very end, they're out

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Speaker 4: of there in fifty three seconds.

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Speaker 2: Fifty three seconds. Wow, And tell me, Alan, what were

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Speaker 2: the fifty three seconds worth of the end? What was

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Speaker 4: So accounts do vary, but we're talking about around three

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Speaker 2: The grainy video from that BlackBerry is posted online and

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Speaker 2: it goes viral. The whole thing feels intentional, like it's

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Speaker 2: about more than the money. The Pink Panthers know they'll

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Speaker 2: make sure that they had matching audis. It all seems

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Speaker 2: designed for maximum spectacle.

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Speaker 6: But why.

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Speaker 2: Journalist Yolenos overrich again made you.

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Speaker 5: They wanted to become an appius in the whole world

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Speaker 5: because if they become more famous, then it would get

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Speaker 1: They would have excellent recommendations.

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Speaker 5: In the world of mafia and the world of drug

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Speaker 5: cartels that would be very useful in other aspects of

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Speaker 5: their life afterwards. That's why they got this crazy idea

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Speaker 5: to get inside with the two cars. No one probably

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Speaker 5: so they were very tempted with this idea to do

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Speaker 2: If they're going for attention, it works. The Waffi mall

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Speaker 6: When to Buy hit, it was a complete explosion media.

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Speaker 2: Dmitriy Voinoff is a Serbian screenwriter and film scholar. He

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Speaker 2: has researched the Pink Panthers extensively for his film All

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Speaker 2: Panthers Are Pink. He sees a connection between the panthers

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Speaker 2: staging of this heist as a made for media moment

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Speaker 6: If you look at and Clyde, who were the criminals

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Speaker 6: So Tony and Kyde are the first ones who are

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Speaker 2: Home and Serbian. Their exploits play Well to.

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Speaker 6: Buy had this element of brute force, which I think

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Speaker 5: To pull it off.

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Speaker 2: Kelenasorich again.

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Speaker 5: For most of them, they are not exactly heroes, but

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Speaker 2: The panthers seem to get pretty much everything they want

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Speaker 5: And the Dubai Police was humiliated in a way because

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Speaker 5: they asked for interpals help immediately. They did their best

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Speaker 5: to look for them. But the escape plan was even

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Speaker 5: better than the plan for the highest.

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Speaker 2: So Elan. What was the escape plan?

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Speaker 4: The freeway? There was an entrance to the freeway right

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Speaker 4: mapped out where the police headquarters is located in relation

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Speaker 2: Right and then what they had straight for the airport.

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Speaker 4: Well, no, they have to get rid of the evidence

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Speaker 4: right the cars. So they're on the freeway I don't know,

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Speaker 4: for three maybe four minutes, and then they exit into

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Speaker 2: So they set their cars on fire, and now what Yeah.

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Speaker 4: They destroyed the two cars, but there's a third car.

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Speaker 4: They have a rental that's been parked there the whole time,

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Speaker 4: They fly first to France by some accounts, and in

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Speaker 2: It's a perfect plan. Almost in a moment, someone makes

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Speaker 2: some DNA and there is something else. The police eventually

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Speaker 2: linked the last getaway car the when they rented back

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Speaker 2: to Boyana Yelenasorgsha Douglas Savaltomobile.

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Speaker 5: Whenever they would rent cars, boats, motorbikes, whatever was useful

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Speaker 5: for the heist, they were always trying to rent it

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Speaker 1: That's how it works.

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Speaker 5: Usually they offer more cash and than nobody records anything

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Speaker 2: But this wasn't an option in the UAE and Dumbai, it.

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Speaker 5: Was definitely different because it's not that kind of a city.

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Speaker 5: So it's practically impossible to pay something in cash without

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Speaker 2: The panthers had stolen cars, they had fake passports. Clearly

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Speaker 2: they could have stolen credit cards if they needed them,

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Speaker 2: but Buyana seems to intentionally use her own card on

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Speaker 1: So she said, Okay, I'm going to pay this with

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Speaker 5: The whole idea of the heist in Dubai was to

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Speaker 1: They wanted to be known all around the world. Boyenna

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Speaker 1: agreed to do it that way because.

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Speaker 5: As a part of the gang, she also wanted for

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Speaker 2: This, and according to Helena, there was another factor that

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Speaker 5: At that time, Serbia didn't have any kind of agreement

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Speaker 1: Her once she was back in Serbia. So the only

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Speaker 1: price they were sure.

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Speaker 5: They would have to pay is that it wouldn't be

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Speaker 2: But it's not the only price the Pink Panthers would

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Speaker 2: have to pay, because any crime that gets this much

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Speaker 2: attention demands a response. Even though they were careful not

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Speaker 2: to harm anyone, this robbery was not something law enforcement

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Speaker 2: could ignore, and so in the wake of the Waffi

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Speaker 2: Mull heist, Interpol issues that urgent worldwide bulletin the red

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Speaker 2: Notice calling for the immediate arrest and extradition of one

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Speaker 2: Boyana Mitag. Dubai is a turning point. The Waffi Mole

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Speaker 2: heist makes the Panthers the subject of worldwide attention for

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Speaker 2: better or worse, but it's only the latest in a

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Speaker 2: string of brazen smash and grab robberies that have been

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Speaker 2: going on for some time, and Laden Lazarevich, Buyana Mitic,

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Speaker 2: and Belan Li Poya are just three among many coming

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Speaker 2: up next on Infamous International. The Pink Panthers story. They

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Speaker 2: want the wow factor. By doing all of these things

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Speaker 2: that we associate with Pink Panther films, with James Bond films,

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Speaker 2: with countless heist films, I think it actually makes it very,

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Speaker 2: very hard to catch them. The Pink Panther's approach is

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Speaker 2: incredibly successful. First came this guy wearing a suit, and

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Speaker 2: then came another guy in a white mask. Almost immediately

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Speaker 2: of the quirks. They stole this tierra. The tier itselfsth

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Speaker 2: like two million dollars and they did it all in

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Speaker 2: about thirty two seconds, but millions of dollars it stolen.

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Speaker 2: Jewels presents its own set of issues the Pink Panthers.

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Speaker 6: They like to hit high end shops, high end jewelry.

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Speaker 2: Here's the problem.

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Speaker 6: If it's something that costs fifty million dollars from some

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Speaker 6: famous jeweler, everybody in the business.

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Speaker 1: Will know what it is.

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Speaker 2: That's Next Time on Infamous International. The Pink Panther's Story.

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Speaker 2: Infamous International The Pink Panther's Story was produced by Best

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Speaker 2: Case Studios in association with Koda. Story hosted by me

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Speaker 2: Natalie ant Lava and written by Katrina Wolfe, Adam Pinkis,

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Speaker 2: Suszanne Meyers, and David Markowitz, with help from Brent Katz

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Speaker 2: and Matt Levin. For Best Case Studios Executive producer Adam Pinkis,

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Speaker 2: Senior producer David Markowitz, Producer Katrina Wolfe, Associate producer Hannah

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Speaker 2: Libovitz Lockhart, and consulting producers Julie Goldstein and Louis Spiegeler.

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Speaker 2: For Koda Story reporting by Lane Greenberg with associate producer

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Speaker 2: Rebecca Robinson. Edited and sound designed by Gaylan Mullens and

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Speaker 2: Max Michael Miller. Music by Dave Harrington. Archival producers Mark

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Speaker 2: Degra and Paul Dallas. This has been an Exactly Wright production.

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Speaker 2: Executive producers Karen Kilgareth Georgia Hart Stark, and Daniel Kramer,

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Speaker 2: with consulting producer Kyle L. Ryan