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

Priscila Guevara and Constantín Dumitru ordered to pay €750,000 to insurers over the theft of 45 bottles

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.