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Chapter 707 707: Pink Panther Organization

"Hey, Jack, got any business lately?""Haha, didn't expect a call from you. I've been resting for quite a while."

Jack, the owner of a shipwreck salvage team.

Previously, Chen Yiyang used him when salvaging Ancient Rome lead ingots from the seabed.

Later in conversation, Chen Yiyang learned that besides his apparent identity, Jack secretly involved himself in many gray areas, mostly centered around Europe and America's antique jewelry and artifacts.

So after hearing Luobu talk about the Louvre heist news, Chen Yiyang called Jack.

"You know about the Louvre being robbed recently?" Chen Yiyang got straight to the point.

"I know a bit." Jack, as expected, knew more than the average person. He thought for a moment, then whispered, "People in the circle are saying the Pink Panther organization did it."

Pink Panther?

Chen Yiyang was a bit bewildered, not expecting this robbery team to be such a famous group. Just like in the movies.

"Yeah, Pink Panther." Seeing that Chen Yiyang didn't know what Pink Panther was, Jack gave him a bit of an introduction.

Pink Panther is not a fictional movie heist team but a real, well-known crime organization that has committed numerous crimes before.

This organization was founded in 1999, and their group name comes from a classic 1964 North American film, "Pink Panther."

It's said that this organization has as many as two hundred members, specializing in high-end jewelry and watch heists, involved in over one hundred and fifty cases worldwide, with a total amount exceeding 250 million euros.

Although Pink Panther is quite famous, their notoriety began to rise sharply from 2003.

In 2003, the group orchestrated a shocking heist at London's Graff Jewelry Store.

At that time, several Pink Panther members swept through the high-end Graff Jewelry Store in London in under three minutes, stealing jewelry worth about 30 million US Dollars.

After succeeding, the crime gang immediately vanished into the crowd, and the police haven't captured anyone to this day, only knowing that after the jewelry theft, the gang hid part of the stolen goods in face cream jars.

This is akin to the plot in the Pink Panther movie; thereafter, the team was dubbed Pink Panther by outsiders.

And it's precisely because up to now, the Pink Panther crime organization hasn't been dismantled by the police.

The reason being they're too professional.

Their usual heist method involves scouting in advance to find weak security spots and then accurately targeting the coveted jewelry when executing the crime.

Once snatched, they make a clean getaway without delay. Furthermore, their most impressive skill is forging the related certificates immediately after acquiring the jewelry.

Subsequently, using the time lag and forged certificates, gang members quickly offload the stolen goods.

This renders the police's usual methods of tracking stolen property to capture ordinary crime gangs useless.

Because the Pink Panther team can sell off the stolen goods within 24 hours, then team members split the money and disappear.

By the time the police trace the stolen goods, the team members are all vacationing somewhere else, and those who buy the stolen goods, as third-party bona fide acquirers, legally make it hard to recover the stolen items.

There was once a Pink Panther team member accidentally caught by the police for other reasons.

According to the information he revealed, the Pink Panther organization is exceedingly professional in their heists.

What's most remarkable is that before every heist, this gang first seeks investors to fund their robbery operations.

This ensures that the heist team won't reveal any flaws to the police because of a lack of funds.

This aspect is vital.

Because with funds, Pink Panther members can rent three apartments to form a triangular defense line.

These three apartments are respectively used as residences for heist members, vacant rooms for cash flow, and the core hideout for stolen goods.

Besides, every time they commit a crime, there's someone specially responsible for stealing vehicles for them.

Since many crime teams ultimately fall because their identities were exposed through rented vehicles, leading to capture by the police.

So they solely utilize stolen vehicles.

With such professional preparation in place.

Even if the police receive advance notice, they can't catch anyone.

Because the one responsible for stealing vehicles doesn't engage in the actual robbery.

The one executing the robbery doesn't manage the fencing of stolen goods.

The one handling the fencing is the core member of the organization, whose identity is a mystery and avoids easily getting involved in police trap scenarios.

Resulting in the police only catching those responsible for executing the heist, not able to dig deeper.

And because Pink Panther members strictly adhere to the principle of robbing without causing harm.

Even if a member gets caught, they won't be sentenced to many years.

Take the 2003 London heist for example, during the loot, one security member and a passerby, upon sensing something amiss, came with a gun to prevent the crime.

But Pink Panther gang members swiftly grabbed a female clerk, averting the security team members and passersby from firing.

And once they got into the pre-arranged vehicle, they simply released the hostage, drove off, and didn't attempt to confront security personnel with weapons throughout.

Similarly, in Dubai's 2007 heist, gang members used battering rams to violently smash windows. Yet, when restraining hostages and security members, they firmly avoided using the battering rams, relying solely on physical suppression and swiftly escaping.

This approach ensures Pink Panther's frontline heist members are actually the lowest-risk segment of the entire operation.

As long as they don't injure, don't use lethal force, they're captured and only serve short prison terms.

After release, these gang members can still under the organization's cover change identities, move to other countries, and continue frontline operations.

Even if all of Europe records members' appearances and monitors them.

Pink Panther can arrange for members to carry out a significant score in countries like Japan and make money to retire.

They even set an 89-second rapid heist record at Tokyo's Ginza, and after succeeding, within 24 hours, the entire crime team left Japan, headed to European Union member countries, swiftly changing identities, disappearing into the crowd.

After listening to Jack's introduction, Chen Yiyang was astonished.

He initially thought those European crime films were already quite outrageous.

Unexpectedly, in the real world, these crime gangs are even more outlandish than in movies.

Those movie crime teams mainly showcase individual heroism cooperation.

While the real-world crime team uses a scientific organizational structure, crime collaboration, and fencing method, ensuring unless the most core members were caught by the police, the whole team wouldn't be exposed due to one or two failed missions.

"Speaking of which, boss, is there anything in the stolen jewels you fancy? Perhaps I could inquire a bit," Jack suddenly said.

"Do you know where this crime gang fences the stolen goods?" Chen Yiyang asked curiously.