Spain $1.7m wine theft: Couple jailed for four years

A erstwhile Mexican quality queen and her spouse person been jailed successful Spain for 4 years for stealing 45 bottles of vino worthy an estimated $1.7m (£1.4m).

The incidental happened successful 2021 astatine a luxury edifice successful the Spanish metropolis of Cáceres, wherever the mates were staying arsenic guests.

The mates aboriginal fled, but they were arrested 9 months aboriginal astatine the Croatia-Montenegro borderline and returned to Spain.

None of the vino has been recovered.

The tribunal named the mates lone arsenic Tatania and Estanislao, but they person been identified by Spanish media arsenic Priscila Guevara and Constantín Dumitru.

According to the court, Tatania checked into the exclusive Atrio edifice successful October 2021 utilizing a fake Swiss passport.

She was aboriginal joined by Estanislao and they some enjoyed a 14-course repast astatine the property's Michelin prima restaurant, followed by a guided circuit of the vino cellar.

Estanislao past returned successful the aboriginal hours of the pursuing greeting to raid the cellar utilizing a stolen key, which the tribunal suggested helium took from reception portion Tatania provided a distraction.

One of the bottles of wine, which were stuffed into their backpacks, had a unsocial 19th Century vintage and is reported to person been worthy €350,000 (£310,000).

The theft sparked an planetary constabulary hunt that ended successful July erstwhile the brace were caught portion trying to transverse into Croatia.

According to the El País newspaper, the brace had reportedly visited the edifice astatine slightest 3 times beforehand successful bid to hole for the robbery.

The mates person besides been ordered to wage much than €750,000 to insurers successful damages.

Their sentences are not yet last and the mates volition person the accidental to entreaty them.