Diamonds and jewels worth $25 million that were stolen from a Harry Winston boutique in 2008 were discovered this week in a Paris sewer, news outlets report.

A group of thieves – some dressed as women – robbed the diamond jewelry boutique on December 5, 2008, and took jewelry and luxury watches set with gemstones worth $85-$118 million.

The jewels – 19 rings and three sets of earrings, one of which is valued at $19.5 million – had been hidden in a plastic container inside a drainpipe in a house in Seine-Saint Denis. The house belongs to one of the nine suspects charged in the robbery after police arrested 25 suspects in June 2009.

One of the suspects turned out to be the man who masterminded the heist, who was found to be hiding $1.1 million of the stolen merchandise at his house. He was eventually sentenced to 15 years in prison on drug trafficking charges.