article_snippet.sent: Earlier this week, Mahendra Bavishi, the joint director of the safe deposit company robbed in the raid, said  he believed it was an inside job.
article_snippet.sent: Mahendra Bavishi, the joint director of the safe deposit company robbed in the raid, said detectives had asked to put some ‘sensitive’ questions to he British-based son Manish who runs the business - including whether he suspects someone connected to the company or other firms in the same premises had links with criminal gangs.
article_snippet.sent: he added that the robbers almost certainly had some inside information because the robbers appeared to know that several CCTV cameras in the building where he firm is based were not working when the robbers broke in.
article_snippet.sent: The incident took place over the Easter weekend, when the gang forced the gang way into 72 safe deposit boxes by sneaking into the block, abseiling down a lift shaft to the underground vault and drilling through a 7ft-thick concrete wall.
article_snippet.sent: It is estimated that anything from £60million to £200million of jewellery and cash was removed from the company’s vaults in London’s diamond district.
article_snippet.sent: Meanwhile, police are investigating links between the Hatton Garden incident and a similarly audacious burglary just two years earlier in Berlin.
article_snippet.sent: In a case which has strikingly similar traits to the £60m heist in London, thieves targeted 294 security vaults during a break-in at the Volksbank in Steglitz, Berlin, in January 2013.
article_snippet.sent: The gang, who fled the bank with diamonds, gold and silver worth more than £8.3m, have never been found.
article_snippet.sent: It now appears that the Berlin heist bore all the hallmarks of the Easter weekend raid in London, including the use of a heavy-duty drill to bore through concrete walls, and the belief that the well-planned burglary was carried out with the help of an insider.
article_snippet.sent: German detectives are now keen to find out whether any DNA was recovered from the scene of the Easter weekend raid and whether it matches forensic samples found in a tunnel used in the robbery.