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Mostafa Al Zoubi, Gulf Today

A woman stole diamond worth £4.2 million from a luxury jewellery dealer in London. The woman pretended to be a jewellery expert and replaced the real diamond with fake diamond while she was checking it.

The British media said that the woman, Lulu Lakatos, replaced 7 pieces of the original diamond at the Boodles showroom on New Bond Street in central London.

She put the jewels in a closed purse and when it was opened, 7 pieces of fake diamond were found.  Lakatos, 60, who denied the charge was born in Romania and lived in France.