The Hatton Garden gem heist has left in its wake as much as $90,000,000 in jewels stolen. The methods used in this current caper resemble one that happened in Berlin a couple of years ago.

Scotland Yard released images of the crime scene almost three weeks after it happened.

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The photos showed holes that were 25cm hide and 45cm wide drilled straight through the concrete wall of the vault using a diamond-tipped drill: the Hilti DD350.

And through this process, the thieves were able to access the vault of gems over Easter weekend.

The photos recently released bear a striking resemblance to the images released by the German police following the Volksbank raid in 2013 where gems and diamonds roughly valued at $13,000,000 were stolen.

Much like the Hatton Garden incident, thieves had cut through a wall that was three feet thick.

And also like the crime in Hatton Garden, the one at Volksbank has also been left unsolved.

Due to the recent developments and similarities in both cases, detective Jim Dickie said that he had little doubt that Scotland Yard detectives will now be working closely with their German counterparts as part of their investigation.

Dickie also commented that the process of the crime was much the same and that the group carrying out the crimes is a knowledgeable one.

He says that there is high level planning involved in the crime, as seen from the drill and drill bits used, as well as how they got into the building unnoticed. In both cases, there was no sign of forced entry, almost as if someone let them in or they had a key.

 He posits that there might have been help from an inside agent.

The "inside agent" theory did not just start with Scotland Yard and has already been suspected in the Volksbank.

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