Couple in 1.6M-euro wine heist get 4 years

MADRID---A Spanish court on Monday jailed a couple for stealing 45 bottles of wine worth over 1.6 million euros from a hotel restaurant in what police called a "meticulously planned" theft. A bottle of Chateau D'Yquem 1806 worth 350,000 euros was among the wines stolen from the Atrio hotel in Caceres in southwest Spain in October 2021 in the heist which made global headlines. A court in Caceres sentenced the woman to four years in jail and the man to four and a half years, after finding them guilty of burglary with forced entry. The court also ordered the pair---who were arrested in July 2022 in Croatia---to pay compensation of 753,454 euros to the hotel. Fake passport The wom...

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