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SINGAPORE \u2013 Two tourists walked into a Chinatown jewellery store on June 19, when one of them spat out a fake diamond and stole a real one worth nearly $200,000<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n Indian nationals Mangroliya Manojkumar Kurjibhai, 41, and Serasiya Milan Ramnikbhai, 30, booked their flights home and were attempting to clear immigration at Changi Airport that evening when they were arrested.<\/p>\n Officers recovered the genuine diamond from Serasiya\u2019s haversack, the court heard.<\/p>\n Mangroliya was sentenced to two years, two months and two weeks\u2019 jail on July 17 after pleading guilty to a theft charge. Serasiya\u2019s case is pending.<\/p>\n State Prosecuting Officer (SPO) Yip Cheng Yee told the court that before June 19, the pair planned to steal the diamond from Dianoche jewellery store in Kreta Ayer Road.<\/p>\n Court documents did not disclose how they knew about the precious stone, but they commissioned a counterfeit diamond in India, matching its specifications and serial number.<\/p>\n The SPO said both tourists arrived in Singapore on June 19.<\/p>\n According to court documents, they arrived at the store at around 3pm that day, with Serasiya hiding the fake diamond in his mouth. Mangroliya asked to view the 4.95-carat diamond valued at US$154,000 (S$199,000).<\/p>\n Mangroliya told a sales manager he wanted to view several other items, causing the latter to leave his seat multiple times.<\/p>\n Yip said Mangroliya told Serasiya to make the swop. Serasiya spat out the fake diamond, took the real one and hid it in his mouth, added the prosecutor.<\/p>\n After that, Mangroliya told the manager they would consider the purchase, and both men left the store.<\/p>\n Its CCTV camera caught the pair\u2019s actions and the manager confirmed the fake diamond was a counterfeit after examining it with an optical gemstone identification machine.<\/p>\n After leaving the store, Mangroliya and Serasiya checked out of their hotel and booked a flight to India.<\/p>\n They were caught at Changi Airport Terminal 3 at around 9pm that night.<\/p>\n For theft, an offender can be jailed for up to seven years and fined.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE \u2013 Two tourists walked into a Chinatown jewellery store on June 19, when one of them spat out a fake diamond and stole a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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