The luxury homes in Spain and Portugal where two of the jailed Hatton Garden raiders planned to live after their heist have been revealed.
But the sunny retirement spots have now been seized in a proceeds of crime investigation, with more than £1million recovered from one of the crime gang.
John ‘Kenny’ Collins had a £175,000 flat on the Costa del Sol in southern Spain, while Terry Perkins had lined up a £72,000 home in Portugal’s Algarve, the Sunday People reports.
Collins, 77, and Perkins, 69, were told along with the other conspirators earlier this week that they would face a further seven years in jail if they did not repay millions of pounds.
The planned holiday spots included an apartment in Faro, in the Algarve in the very south of Portugal
Another of the retirement spots the Hatton Garden gang planned to live in was in Malaga in southern Spain
The planned holiday spots included an apartment in Faro, in the Algarve in the very south of Portugal.
Another of the homes was in Malaga, in Andalusia in southern Spain, but the properties have been confiscated as part of efforts to recover proceeds of crime.
‘Ringleader’ Brian Reader, 78, was given six years for the planned heist while Collins, 77, Daniel Jones, 63, Perkins, 69, and William Lincoln, 62, all got seven years for conspiracy to commit burglary.
Collins had some £1million of assets in the form of nine bank accounts, the Costa del Sol flat and a former council home he shared with his partner, it is reported.
Collins (left), 77, and Perkins, 69, were told along with the other conspirators earlier this week that they would face a further seven years in jail if they did not repay millions of pounds
Judge Christopher Kinch QC said the main players each jointly benefited from an estimated £13.69 million worth of cash, gold and gems stolen from Hatton Garden.
The riches were taken from boxes at Hatton Garden Safe Deposit in London’s jewellery quarter after a drill was used to bore a hole into the vault wall.
The gang entered through a lift shaft before drilling their way into the Safe Deposit and making off with jewels, some of which have never been recovered and are feared to have entered the black market.
During the case, the court heard that 44 of the 73 boxes were actively used by 40 tenants at the time.
Other victims, including several wholesale jewellers, have had substantial cash payments from their insurers pending the return of their missing valuables.
Meanwhile, a plumber who helped the gem heist gang has been ordered to pay back £400.
Hugh Doyle, 50, let the the aging gang use his offices as a handover spot after they stole £14million-worth of gems from the heart of London’s diamond district.
The gem raid became one of the most infamous crimes of recent times after the elderly gang drilled through a concrete wall to get into a safe