ocialite Tamara Ecclestone has offered a reward of up to £6 million for information that could lead to the recovery of some of its ‘valuable’ belongings stolen in Britain’s biggest break-in ever.
The daughter of ex-Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone said she “went out of the movie Ransom in Mel Gibson style” in an attempt to get some of her items back, after “waiting long enough” to do so by conventional means.
The 38-year-old was on holiday in Lapland with her art gallery owner husband Jay Rutlandtheir daughter and their dog when their Kensington home was robbed on December 13, 2019.
At a trial last year, Isleworth Crown Court heard Ms Ecclestone being left “scared” and “obsessed with safety” after her Kensington mansion was looted for £25 million worth of cash, jewelery and precious stones.
Police said the gang responsible are believed to have committed similar crimes against known victims across Europe and planned to carry out further raids on the rich and famous in the UK.
While three men were detained in November 2021, Ms Ecclestone said none of her family’s stolen belongings except a pair of earrings have been found since the break-in.
On Sunday, she said the episode “still traumatizes my family and I to this day.”
She wrote on her Instagram stories: “The thought of those disgusting people, rummaging through every room in my house, invading my house, touching my belongings and stealing some of the things that are most dear to me means that I will never will be able to lay my head back in that house to rest with the same sense of security I once had.”
I will gladly defer a reward of 25% of the value of anything the police can figure out based on information provided by a source
She said her daughter is “still asking if the burglars are coming back and don’t want to sleep alone”.
Ms Ecclestone said she would “luckily” offer a reward of 25% of the value of anything the police get back from information provided.
She wrote: “While I have accepted that I will probably never see my stolen belongings again, I will gladly pay a reward of 25% of the value of anything the police can uncover based on information provided by a source.
“If you are the source, you get the reward. It’s that simple.”
She said the reward could be up to £6 million “for anyone who can help me get back what is rightfully mine”.
She said she was also offering a £250,000 reward to anyone who can “turn Daniel Vukovic over to London police”.
She added: “This man thinks he can ride into the sunset with all the loot from robbing my family and me. Not so fast…”
Vukovic, believed to be a Serbian citizen, was named in court as a suspected fourth member of the gang.
Police said he uses a range of aliases, including Alfredo Lindley, Ljubomir Radosavljevic and Ljubomir Romanov.
The court heard that he had fled to the Serbian capital Belgradewhere he is still believed to be, after a failed extradition bid.
The Metropolitan Police said their investigations are continuing and detectives from their specialized crime department are looking for this man.
Italian nationals Jugoslav Jovanovic, Alessandro Maltese and Alessandro Donati, who were behind three raids in west London in December 2019, were all sentenced to prison terms last year.
The trio were extradited from Italy and pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit burglary between November 29 and December 18, 2019.
Jovanovic also admitted to conspiracy to launder money and attempt to convert criminal property.
He was sentenced to 11 years in prison, while Maltese and Donati were each sentenced to eight years and nine months in prison.
Victims of the other raids have included former Chelsea FC midfielder Frank Lampard and his TV host wife Christine, and the late Leicester City FC owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha.
Ms Ecclestone’s reward offer follows a BBC documentary broadcast in recent days entitled Who Stole Tamara Ecclestone’s Diamonds?.