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Ashifa Kassam in Madrid

Pair jailed after €1.6m wine heist at high-end restaurant in Spain

The wine cellar of Atrio restaurant in Cáceres, Spain
A 217-year-old bottle of Château d’Yquem worth €350,000 was said to be among the wine stolen from the Atrio restaurant in Cáceres. Photograph: Carles Allende/Restaurante Atrio/Reuters

A court in Spain has sentenced two people to four and half years in prison after the theft of €1.6m (£1.4m) worth of expensive wine from a high-end restaurant in a heist that made headlines around the world.

In October 2021 one of the owners of Atrio hotel and restaurant in the city of Cáceres sounded the alarm after discovering 45 bottles of wine – including a 217-year-old bottle of Château d’Yquem worth €350,000 – were missing from the cellar.

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