Red Audi Gang is responsible for a daring $2 million pink diamond heist and a string of armed robberies

Highly organised gang is responsible for a daring $2 million pink diamond heist and a string of armed robberies after finding the crimes were all linked by a red luxury sports car.The robbery and serious crime squad made the connection after seeing the high-powered Audi sports wagon in security camera footage of robberies in the central business district, inner west and North Shore.
Witnesses told Strike Force Townsville they saw the robbers flee in a red Audi after the January ram raid-style armed robbery at the exclusive Mondial Neuman jewellery store in Sydney's Queen Victoria Building. detectives have since established that the Audi was stolen from a home in Mosman. It was set alight in the basement car park of an Abbotsford unit block in the early hours of April 23.During the QVB robbery, balaclava-clad thieves stormed the shop with sledgehammers after smashing through a window with a stolen four-wheel-drive. They grabbed a number of rare pink diamonds, as well as other natural-coloured diamond jewellery.Eighty-nine of the 359 unique pieces have since been recovered by police in an unrelated raid on a Balmain home on May 9. During that operation the NSW Police bomb squad evacuated residents from nearby streets after officers uncovered explosives, detonators and drugs at the same address.Detective Acting Superintendent Greg Antonjuk said up to six people are believed to be part of the criminal syndicate."We have linked this criminal syndicate with several aggravated break-and-enter and armed robbery offences between January and AprilS this year," he said."Photos we are releasing today show a red Audi stopped near the scene of two ram raid-style armed robberies, the first at a credit union in St Leonards on Wednesday, January 16, and the second three days later near the QVB jewellery store."Superintendent Antonjuk said CCTV footage of the Audi in St Leonards showed a man with a "large build" was sitting in the driver's seat, but his features were indistinguishable because of dark window tinting.