Moment brazen crime tourists steal £15k of jewellery in plain sight from shop while on country-wide shoplifting spree
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A pair of brazen thieves were caught on CCTV stealing £15,000 worth of gold chains from a shop while on a crime spree totalling almost £50,000 across the country. Married Vadar-Ghimes and Zinca Agafitei, both 46, were arrested after taking ten gold chains worth £15,000 from a jeweller's in Norfolk.
![[The pair had previously swiped jewellery worth another £48,000 from other locations around the Midlands and southern England in just a few weeks]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/19/14/93316175-14210221-image-a-28_1734617089030.jpg)
Enquiries revealed they had swiped jewellery worth another £48,000 from other locations around the Midlands and southern England in just a few weeks - after being allowed into the country despite a 'similar' spree of distraction thefts and burglaries, mainly at small, independent businesses in Italy, Malta, Turkey and Germany.
![[The pair of them were finally arrested after striking at The Gold Shop in Thetford, Norfolk, on July 29]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/19/14/93316183-14210221-image-a-29_1734617094216.jpg)
They have now been jailed for 27 months each after admitting three charges of burglary and two of theft. Vadar-Ghimes also admitted a fraud charge. The couple had committed theft across counties including Warwickshire, Sussex, Wiltshire, Suffolk and Norfolk between May 14 and July 29.
![[Vadar-Ghimes Agafitei was jailed for 27 months by Norwich Crown Court for his part in a spate of jewellery heists]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/19/14/93273369-14210221-Vadar_Ghimes_Agafitei_was_jailed_for_27_months_by_Norwich_Crown_-a-32_1734617122911.jpg)
The pair of them were finally arrested after striking at The Gold Shop in Thetford, Norfolk, on July 29. Before that, on May 14 Agafitei stole an £11,500 Rolex from a jewellery shop after a staff member was distracted retrieving another one the couple had requested to view.
![[Zinca Agafitei was also jailed for 27 months by Norwich Crown Court for her role in the heists with her husband]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/19/14/93273375-14210221-Zinca_Agafitei_was_also_jailed_for_27_months_by_Norwich_Crown_Co-a-33_1734617126318.jpg)
On June 17, a man and a woman entered a jewellery shop in Sussex and requested to view a watch which was on display in the window. This is the moment Vadar-Ghimes (left) and Zinca Agafitei (right) steal £15,000 of jewellery in plain sight from a shop. The pair had previously swiped jewellery worth another £48,000 from other locations around the Midlands and southern England in just a few weeks.
![[CCTV footage shows Vadar-Ghimes putting the gold chains underneath his t shirt]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/19/14/93316179-14210221-image-a-30_1734617108145.jpg)
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