Tokyo shopping complex hit by another luxury watch theft
A luxury watch worth an estimated 46 million yen ($291,000) was stolen from a shop in Tokyo’s Nakano Ward on Thursday, Qazinform News Agency reports, citing Kyodo.
Police received an emergency call at around 8 p.m. reporting that a person posing as a customer had stolen the watch by putting it on and leaving the store. The suspect, who was dressed in dark clothing, had spent less than 10 minutes inside the shop, according to police.
The stolen timepiece was a Swiss-made Audemars Piguet watch.
The shop is located on the third floor of the Nakano Broadway shopping complex, where a similar theft occurred in August. Two Chilean men are accused of stealing four luxury watches worth a total of 200 million yen from a shop on the complex’s first floor in late August.
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