Not long before getting “robbed” by fake Hasidic Jews, a pair of financially desperate Diamond District jewelers cleared out their safe—replacing the contents with what appear to be empty boxes, according to a bombshell video played by prosecutors yesterday in Manhattan Supreme court.

The footage is the DA’s smoking gun in the case against Atul Shah and Mahaveer Kankariya, accused of staging a $7 million heist that played out like the one in the Guy Ritchie movie “Snatch”—right down to the gun-toting thieves in black hats and bogus beards.
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On New Year’s Eve 2008, according to the jewelers’ account, two phony Hasids with real-looking guns tricked their way into their West 46th Street offices, destroying the surveillance video recorder, tossing empty jewelry boxes and fleeing with a fortune in gems.

Trouble was, although a full bottle of industrial-strength drain opener had been poured into the recorder, its motherboard endured. And the surviving footage shows Shah, 49, and Kankariya, 44, walking together into the kitchen where the video equipment is stored just two hours before the robbery.

Immediately afterward, the video image from one of four cameras begins flickering before dying a slow death.

But the surviving tape shows the pair removing jewels from their safe and refilling it with what the prosecution claims are empty boxes—allegedly to leave something behind for cops to find.

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(Source: NY Post)