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...Special Investigation (DSI), which is similar to the FBI, says it has no evidence to confirm the facts of the case - and doesn't even know whether the blue stone that's said to be larger than the Hope Diamond exists. What is certain is that the alleged theft eventually cost Thailand billions of dollars, left people dead in its wake and put an Elvis-impersonating Thai official on death row. More than 20 years later, the ripped-off Saudis still want their jewels back, and relations between the two governments remains strained. (See the world's top 10 heists...
...Though the DSI insists there's no proof that the murders and kidnapping are connected to the theft, the former Saudi chargé d'affaires, Mohammed Khoja, was adamant, telling the Bangkok Post in 1995 that the murder case and heist were linked. Despite the deaths, the Thai police tried to return the gems that weren't yet sold by Kriangkrai in an official visit to Saudi Arabia, hoping it would end the scandal. It didn't take long, however, for Saudi Arabia to claim that most of the returned goods were imitation baubles. To add insult to injury...
Papadopoulos faces a total of four counts of larceny: three counts for his thefts from URS, Harvard, and Massport, and one count for his theft from...
Papadopoulos, who is pleading not guilty, has been accused of sending both Harvard and Massport inflated bills for the amount he had stolen to cover up his theft, in addition to submitting more than 250 falsified expense reports between...
...informed Harvard of the theft and reimbursed the University for the stolen funds last spring, after Harvard obtained an independent review of its transactions with the corporation, according to a statement from the Harvard Press Office...