Police arrest couple over €1.6m wine heist carried out in Spain

Expert thieves' tracked down to Montenegro-Croatia border after nine-month police operation

Detectives hunting for a pair of expert thieves" accused of stealing 45 bottles of wine worth more than 1.6m (1.4m) from a Spanish restaurant last year have arrested two people after a nine-month international police operation that ended in Croatia.

In October 2021, a man and a woman staying at the Atrio hotel and restaurant in Caceres, south-west Spain, stole dozens of bottles of expensive French wine, including an 1806 Chateau D'Yquem, in a heist that made headlines around the world.