The Millennium Dome De Beers Heist

an attempted robbery of the De Beers diamond exhibition in Greenwich London on Nov 7 2000. Locals planned to raid the exhibition held in the riverside Dome at the time,then planned to escape on the...

Thames in a speedboat. The robbery was foiled by the Metropolitan police. On display was the Millenium Star, a flawless 203-carat gem with an estimated worth over $400 million USD, as well as several priceless blue diamonds. If successful they would have pulled off one of the largest robberies in history but, of course, they didn’t.