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I agree with you. It was totally staged. Those extremely valuable items just sitting there uselessly rotting away are far too valuable not to cash in. Someone with a lot of authority decided to orchestrate this heist so those jewels could finally be cashed in. And they are in such a high position of authority that the only authority above them is god.
Because the news reports I saw had the journalists state confidently & dismissively that there is no expectation for the jewels to be recovered.
...Because the metals are likely melted down for scrap value and the jewels are probably popped out and sold to gray-market connections. Unless you happen to run into a jeweler who REALLY KNOWS THEIR SHIT, there's really not a good way to trace a gem back to the piece it came from unless that jewel is incredibly identifiable, not worked further after its theft, and of a known provenance.
It's not "oh there's a shadowy dude who ordered them to be stolen away so they could be cashed in", it's because jewelry theft is a highly practiced art and anyone smart enough to put a heist together like this and simply vanish is also smart enough to make sure the evidence is gone within days. Puts real reasonable doubt into a jury or judge when your prosecutor has to say "well, we don't HAVE THE JEWELRY, and we can't GET IT BACK, but I swear this is the dude".
It's like having your car stolen and chopped.