A thief who posed as a gem expert to switch diamonds worth £4.2m for pebbles has been ordered to pay back less than £250.she was found guilty of conspiracy to steal.
A proceeds of crime hearing was told Lakatos' only asset was the €293 in cash found when she was arrested. Since the money had already been seized, he set a one-day default sentence and gave her a month to pay the debt. Romanian national Lakatos, who was convicted at Southwark Crown Court last July, was caught on CCTV as she used sleight of hand to switch a padlocked purse containing the genuine diamonds for a duplicate in March 2016.
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