Five people allegedly involved in the armed robbery at TEFAF Maastricht in 2022 have been added to the EU Most Wanted list, Europol announced on 30 October. The five fugitives, four men and one woman, were listed at the request of the Limburg prosecutor's office and Dutch police, four years after the daytime raid. The listing revives a case that has produced arrests and partial recoveries but no convictions, and the most valuable piece is still missing.

The robbery took place at about 11.30am on 28 June 2022. Four men in blazers and flat caps entered the fair, and one used a sledgehammer to smash a glass display case at the stand of London jeweller Symbolic & Chase. Two of the men appeared to brandish handguns at a bystander who tried to intervene with a vase of flowers. The gang fled with jewellery from the case, the fair was briefly evacuated, and nobody was injured. Police stopped a grey Belgian-plated car near the Dutch-Belgian border and arrested two Belgian men, aged 22 and 26.

The investigation has spread across Europe. Two diamonds from a stolen necklace were recovered in 2023, one in Israel and one in Hong Kong, but the necklace's central yellow diamond remains missing. Police have searched a river at Verviers in Belgium for tools discarded after the raid and traced the gang via rental cars in Belgium, Germany and Austria, with links to the Serbian city of Nis. A 500,000-euro reward has been offered for information leading to the recovery of the jewellery, with a further 20,000 euros for identifying the suspects. Dutch media reported that the stolen pieces could be worth tens of millions, including a necklace valued at 27 million euros, but police have never confirmed a figure.

The listing puts the heist in focus as TEFAF prepares its 40th anniversary edition in Maastricht in March 2027. The 2022 raid, filmed by visitors and shared online, became one of the most brazen art-world crimes of recent years, and the flat caps worn by the gang earned them a 'Peaky Blinders' nickname in the Dutch press.