Man involved in Chinatown heist of S$200,000 diamond using fake substitute gets jail

A man involved in stealing a two-hundred-thousand Singapore dollar diamond in Chinatown has been jailed. Channel NewsAsia reports the heist relied on a bait-and-switch: one conspirator distracted a staff member while the other swapped out the genuine diamond for a counterfeit and concealed the real gem in his mouth.

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