Caught: Serbian Borko Ilincic, 33, is said to be a leader of the Pink Panthers gang
One of the leader of the infamous Pink Panthers gang of international jewel thieves has been arrested in Spain.
Borko Ilincic, a 33-year-old Serbian, was detained by officers from the National Police in the town of Alcala de Henares, just outside Madrid.
His hire car was stopped just after he left a hotel.
He now faces a life sentence in Dubai for a heist in a commercial centre in the Arab Emirate seven years ago, in which the Pink Panthers stole gems worth nearly �2.5million.
He is also wanted in dozens of other countries where the notorious gang have stolen jewellery worth over �116million, in more than 120 spectacular robberies.
Ilincic was travelling on a Bosnian passport using a false name when he was caught, the Spanish National Police said in a statement issued today.
The Pink Panthers, believed to be made-up of 200 ex-military personnel, mainly from the Balkan states, have been operating for at least 30 years.
In 1984, three machine gun-toting crooks stormed into the jewellery shop at the Carlton Hotel in Cannes on the Cote d'Azur and cleared its shelves of �39million worth of gems.
In May 2013 they were back at the same hotel during the city's famous film festival.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2557815/Police-arrest-alleged-leader-notorious-Pink-Panther-jewel-theft-gang-120-robberies-including-88m-Cannes-heist.html
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One wonders where all that money went,even considerable after the Fences took their Cut!

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Pink Panther Theme Song