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Pair due in court charged over £50m raid on Tamara Ecclestone’s London home

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Two men are due in court charged as part of a police probe into a £50 million raid on heiress Tamara Ecclestone’s London home.

The pair are the latest to be charged by officers investigating a burglary at the property in Palace Green, Kensington, west London, last year.

A £300,000 pair of diamond earrings and a Louis Vuitton bag were among a haul which included currency, jewellery and watches estimated to have a value of £50 million which were stolen in the December 13 raid.

The incident happened just after Ms Ecclestone, the daughter of former Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone, left the country for a Christmas holiday with her husband Jay Rutland and their daughter Sophia.

Alexandru Stan and Sorin Marcovici are due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Thursday.

The family's gated Kensington mansion
The family's gated Kensington mansion

Stan, 49, of Constable Gardens in Harrow, is charged with conspiracy to commit burglary with intent to steal between November 29 and December 9.

Marcovici, 52, of Dagenham Road, Romford, faces the same charge dated between December 6 and December 12.

In February, Maria Mester denied plotting to steal £50 million in jewellery and cash in a raid on Ecclestone’s home in the capital.

The 47-year-old Romanian cleaner and housemaid, of no fixed address, pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to commit burglary and a charge of concealing criminal property when she appeared via video link at London’s Isleworth Crown Court.

Mester’s bar worker son Emil-Bogdan Savastru, 29, of Bethnal Green, is also charged with conspiracy to commit burglary, having custody or control of a counterfeit currency note and attempting to remove criminal property.

The alleged conspiracy is said to have taken place between November 30 2019 and February 1 2020, while the concealing criminal property charge dates back to January 31.