#10 The Czech Republic President steals a pen, on camera.
Vaclav Klaus, the czech republic president in 2011 stole a ceremonial pen full of jewels in front of the world on live television.He admires it. Turns it over. Slips it into his hand. Drops his hands beneath the table. Switches the pen to his left hand and drops the pen into his pocket. Before putting both hands back on the table as blithely and innocently as you please. Then, he resumes intently listening to the translation through his earpiece.
#9 The Indian restaurant owner, slash gold thief.
Madhukar Prabhakar is a wealthy and successful thief living in Pune, India who was a notorious thief who used to take taxis to the wealthy Mumbai district of India where he would raid the crap out of any house he saw with the lights off. He has stolen vast amounts of money over four decades and is now a millionaire. He owns four plush Bungalows and runs his own Hotel business with the help of his son. Despite being arrested multiple times, the police have failed to put a stop to his criminal career, and haven't managed to put him behind bars due to lack of evidence.
#8 The celebrity chef who stole onions, while buying champagne.
Henry Antony Cardew Worrall Thompson is a British celebrity chef, television presenter and radio broadcaster. Though famous chefs probably don't earn the same money as kings and presidents, the fact that they own restaurants provides them with more then enough to survive. The famed British chef was arrested in 2012 for stealing cheese, coleslaw, and onions (among other items). After the case gained steam Thompson broke down and confessed to crying himself to sleep at night as well as stealing trivial items while at the same time buying hundreds of pounds worth of champagne.
#7 A millionaire's daughter still stole a make up
Caroline Giuliani, daughter of former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, is led away from a Manhattan beauty store after being arrested for shoplifting. The prosecutor-turned-politician, who was New York mayor from 1994 to 2001, was credited with turning around crime problems in the city with his policy of 'zero-tolerance'. Last 2010, Caroline Giuliani was brought to the police station for stealing make up worth several hundred dollars.
#6 The millionaire who stole history, from a library.
Farhad Hakimzadeh was a wealthy, knowledgeable businesnman with an interest in rare books and cultural history. With that in mind, you’d expect a guy who loves books to be respectful of them and not say, slash them to pieces to stick in his private collection where no one else could see them. But no, that's exactly what he did.What Hakimzadeh has done, embodies the worst of the bazaari mentality and the attitude of the very wealthy Iranian ex-pats. Their greed and desire for self interest only, their lack of interest in benefiting the wider community, their disregard for opportunities to share cultural treasures with others.
#5 The World's Biggest Diamond Heist
Leonardo Notarbartolo is a high-ranking member of a notorious Italian burglary ring known as the School of Turin. The School is widely known for conducting some of the most successful jewelry heists in history; most notably the vault burglary at the Antwerp Diamond Centre in 2003. Notarbartolo would typically case jewellery stores under the cover of a shopping expedition.
#4 The millionaire who stole a veteran's credit card, to buy pizza.
This dentist has a self-proclaimed net worth of up to $4million and allegedly had $250 cash on him at the time. When Harrun Majeed lost his credit cards he called his credit card company and explained his situation, only to be told that no less than 8 minutes after he'd lost them, someone had already found them and used them to buy 40 dollars worth of pizza. When cops caught up to the thief they not only found out that he was a millionaire, but that he had 250 dollars in cash in his back pocket.When asked if he needed money, Dr. Richard Ludwig responded flippantly and asserted that he was a millionaire.
#3 The Comptroller who stole millions, on top of a 80 thousand dollar paycheck.
An attorney for the former Dixon comptroller,stolled nearly $54 million from the northern Illinois city. We have people like Rita Crundwell who, on top of being paid 80 thousand dollars a year, decided she just needed to embezzle millions upon millions of the tax payers dollars to get by, because how do you expect someone to live on a measly 80 thousand dollars a year?
#2 The king of Egypt steals a watch, from Winston Churchill.
King Farouk of Egypt, despite being a king with wealth to rival Nintendo, was a very, very angry man and noted miser. A miser for the uninformed is basically the kind of person who'd eat a 5 bean chili and a packet of soap powder on Monday if they wanted a bubbly bath on Wednesday. Farouk was noted to have the demeanour of a young child, as in, if Farouk saw something he wanted, he'd just take it, regardless of the owner.
#1 The millionaire who became a Lego baron.
Despite a high-profile job as a tech executive in Silicon Valley, Thomas Langenbach risked it all to steal thousands of dollars worth of Legos from Target stores. Thomas Langenbach, a wealthy tech worker created the persona of Tomsbrickyard which over several months became one of the foremost sellers of Lego on Ebay. Tomsbrickyard, prior to Langenbach's arrest, had actually had an almost perfect 99.9% approval rating. So yeah, rich people, for some reason, do seem compelled to steal things they could easily afford, however, every now and again they'll do so in such an awesome way you really have to admire them for it .
