[4] In 2022, thirty-one of the stolen items were recovered by the German authorities in Berlin, reportedly after talks with the lawyers of six men on trial for the theft.

At the time of the heist, it displayed about 4,000 items of jewellery and other treasures which were decorated with gold, silver, ivory, pearl, and other precious metals and stones.

[14] One of the stolen pieces was a small sword, described as an épée made of silver and gold with a hilt of nine large and seven hundred and seventy smaller diamonds.

An Order of the White Eagle breast star by the diamond-cutter Jean Jacques Pallard, made up of a 20-carat diamond at its centre and a Maltese cross of red rubies, was also taken.

[1] Marion Ackermann, director of Dresden State Art Collections, said that it was impossible to estimate the price of the stolen items due to their historic cultural value.

[18] The police believe there were four thieves and that they fled in an Audi A6; an identical vehicle was later found on fire in an underground parking lot.

[12] Starting 12 December 2019, several German media outlets reported that police were investigating links to an Arab clan in Berlin.

[22][23] In November 2020, thousands of police raided 18 properties in Berlin, and arrested three suspects, all from a Lebanese migrant family, in connection with the heist.

[25] In January 2020, an Israeli security company said that jewels from the heist were being sold on the dark web, a claim which German investigators rejected.

Two of the suspects were already serving sentences for participating in another major heist, the theft of a 100-kilogram Canadian gold coin dubbed the "Big Maple Leaf" from Berlin's Bode Museum in 2017.

[30] Saxony's Minister-President Michael Kretschmer used Twitter to denounce the crime, saying "not only the state art collections were robbed, but we Saxons.

The information had been shared as part of some exploratory talks between the defense and prosecution towards a potential settlement that would have resulted in all of the items returned.