TAMARA Ecclestone has offered a £6million reward to get her jewels back after the infamous £25m raid left her daughter traumatised.
Tamara – daughter of Formula One tycoon Bernie Ecclestone – was targeted by a gang of audacious robbers in the brazen heist back in 2019.
Tamara Ecclestone has offered an incredible £6million reward in a bid to get her jewels back[/caption]
The 38-year-old was on holiday in Lapland with husband Jay Rutland, their daughter and their dog when their Palace Green home was raided.
The thieves also targeted the home of ex-Chelsea manager Frank Lampard, and a property owned by deceased Leicester City owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha.
But while three of them were banged up in November, suspected ringleader Daniel Vukovic is still on the loose after Serbia refused to extradite him.
And Tamara has now come out to say that she is offering the reward “Mel Gibson-style from the movie Ransom” to get her jewellery back with nothing but a single pair of earrings found since the burglary.
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The former model, 38, said she would “happily put up 25% of the value of anything that police are able to recover”.
In an Instagram story, Tamara wrote: “I have waited long enough to get my stolen possessions back by conventional means.
“So now I am going to do what I wanted to do right from the beginning and go Mel Gibson-style from the movie Ransom.
“If you are the source, you get the reward. It is that simple.
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“With the total value of the burglary being £26m – that’s a reward of up to £6m for anyone that can help me get back what is rightfully mine.”
Tamara said her daughter “still asks if the burglars are coming back and won’t sleep alone”.
And she also added that she will happily pay a £250,000 reward for anyone who “can deliver Daniel Vukovic to the police in London”.
Tamara wrote: “This man thinks he can ride off into the sunset with all the spoils from robbing my family and I.
“Not so fast. Not only one of the men that invaded my home on 13 December 2019, but also the mastermind of the entire burglary and the only one yet to be apprehended.”
A Croatian national, Vukovic is known to Italian authorities under 17 more identities and his real name could be Alfredo Lindley.
While government documents in Serbia show the request to extradite him came under another name – Ljubomir Romanov.
He has a criminal record dating back to 1995 and by 2017 his various aliases had links to Sarajevo, Belgrade, Zagreb and Milan, the BBC found.
In a BBC Sounds podcast, Met Police Det Con Andrew Payne said: “It’s clear Daniel Vukovic had a leading role in the conspiracy.
“The gang have links to Italy. They also have criminal associates in other European countries. It’s highly likely that the stolen goods have gone through camps in Milan.
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“It’s also a fair assumption that the goods are likely to be in Serbia which is the host country where Daniel Vukovic is.
“This is a classic case of it’s buried treasure. It’s out there somewhere. Someone knows where it is. And at some point some of it has to surface.”
Tamara and her family are still traumatised by the incident[/caption]
