According to a thread on twitter by an exhibitor at the recently held Gold & Jewlery Exhibition, they had a diamond bracelet stolen from their booth.
Investigations by the Ministry of Interior revealed that two women were involved in the theft, stealing dozens of jewelry pieces worth hundreds of thousands of dinars from several stores at the exhibition. The stolen items included a diamond ring valued at over 30,000 Kuwaiti dinars from a well-known Kuwaiti store.
The MOI were able to identify the suspects and arrest them in less than 24 hours with all the stolen jewelry in their possession.
I hadn’t read about this heist anywhere else so thought it was interesting, and after googling found an Arab Times article with more information which you can check out here.
2 replies on “Jewelry Heist at the Gold Exhibition”
Yea happens every expo but not at this scale. Unfortunately we’re unable to identify them because of their niqabs.
There’s a fairly long history of thefts happening at Jewelry expos pre-dating the invasion and going back all the way to the early 80s when there would be gold & diamond exhibitiors (mostly, from New Delhi) strutting their stuff at the Sheraton downtown so that’s nothing new.
The bigger question to ask now is will hijabs be contraindicated for all future jewelry expos in the country ? It’s bit of a wolf in sheep’s clothing effect. Men with a drug habit in hijabs is another possibility that cannot entirely be eliminated. It’s unfortunate it should happen now or at any previous time point.