Hatton Garden gangster Brian Reader made one last shrewd deal before his death - pocketing a tidy £1.6 million from the sale of two homes.
Two properties at his vast 7,149sq ft estate in Dartford, Kent, have been sold.
Another is on the market for £800,000 and is set to make his family a small fortune after his death earlier this year.
It has sparked fresh calls for the missing £10 million of loot stolen from the Hatton Garden heist to be chased.
Reader was the oldest member of the Diamond Wheezers heist which stole £14million worth of gems and bullion in a bank deposit heist in Hatton Garden in 2015.
But police have only ever recovered £4.6 million, meaning £9.5 million worth of stolen goods are still missing.
He was jailed for six years and three months after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit burglary but was released halfway through his sentence in 2018 following a series of health battles
The interior view of the vault at the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit company which was robbed by six men in 2015
Pictured: The two properties owned by Reader behind his palatial family home. One has sold the other is on the market for £800k
Brian Readers former home in Dartford, Kent that was sold in April 2022
The gang even got a staggering £660,000 in legal aid for their trial, with Reader getting a share of £136,000 - despite the fortune.
The home currently up for sale - Holly House - is valued at £800,000.
It is a four-bedroom property with two bathrooms.
A source said: It is shocking to see him pocket this wealth just before he died but so much outstanding to the taxpayer.
His crimes cost the taxpayer an enormous sum of money.
Millions are still missing, yet he was able to bring in this huge wealth.
It shows even towards the end he was a shrewd operator and had one over the authorities.
Every effort should go into finding the missing millions. Its appalling that it has not been found.
Reader - nicknamed The Governor - was the oldest member of the Hatton Garden heist gang, and also stood trial along with Kenneth Noye for the murder of undercover police officer Detective Constable John Fordham, 45, in 1985. Both Reader and Noye were acquitted.
Land registry details show the sale of two of the huge homes on the plot just months before his death.
Brian Reader made close to a cool £2m before he died by selling property. (Pictured, his home in Dartford, Kent)
The mastermind of the Hatton Garden heist Brian The Guvnor Reader has died, aged 84
John Collins, Terry Perkins, and Brian Reader in the Castle Public House pub
The vast wealth is set to be handed down to his children.
Sources say it showed one last deal which pocketed his family a nice sum before he died.
Holly House has a large bay window and is traditionally designed throughout.
Neighbours said Reader had been a gentleman during his time living there.
One said: I knew him and knew his history. I never mentioned it.
It was not the sort of thing youd bring up in conversation. I knew he had a bit about him.
He was a shrewd guy. Hes obviously done alright out of selling two of them and theres one more to go.
The burglars worked through the four-day weekend of the Easter and Passover Bank Holiday, when many of the nearby businesses were closed
Hatton Garden heist gang: John Collins (top left), Daniel Jones (top centre), Terry Perkins (top right). Bottom row, left to right: Carl Wood, William Lincoln, and Hugh Doyle
Gold ingots found by the police at the home of co-conspirator Michael Seed in Islington
Another said: His family and the people there have been nothing but pleasant.
I hope the third one sells for them.
Whatever he did has got nothing to do with his family.
I wish them all good luck.
Theres a shortage of houses in the area so I hope it is sold and it makes somebody happy.
I knew Brian Reader for a few years. He never caused me any problems.
Holly House is described online as: Holly House is one of two recently built beautiful detached family homes which are Victorian in design, with a variety of architectural detailing relevant to this architectural era, which knit together to create two cohesive and harmonious high quality homes.
The style of architecture is drawn from the character of many houses in the immediate area and incorporating the following detailing reflecting this era: large bay windows, gablet dormer windows, exposed rafter feet, brick interspersed with small sections of vertical tile hanging and brickwork, chimneys with decorative corbelling, traditional sash design windows and traditional gabled roofs.
Internally the property provides spacious flexible living accommodation with contemporary open plan living space and separate sitting room.
On the upper floor the bedroom accommodation incorporates en-suite facilities, as well as a family bathroom and linen store and on the second floor an office/bonus room. This two/three storey property is versitile in its layout. To the rear there is a garden laid to lawn with patio area and the property benefits from a double car port with store room above and gated driveway with additional parking.
This family home has been built with unrivalled attention to detail combining elegance and luxury in a much sought after location.
The infamous Hatton Garden criminals
Brian Reader
Brian Reader
Career criminal Brian Reader was known as the Guvnor and was a partner in crime of notorious gangland figure Kenneth Noye - despite the fact the pair were like chalk and cheese.
Reader was the oldest of the gang and he even travelled to the robbery on a bus using a pensioners Freedom Pass.
One police officer even described him as the last of the gentlemen thieves.
Reader was released from jail in 2018 and avoided paying back his £6.6million share after a judge found him too unwell.
He avoided jail due to his mental and physical health.
Terry Perkins
Terry Perkins
Terry Perkins was one of those involved from start to finish and entered the safety deposit premises on both nights of the heist.
He did not go through the drilled holes into the vault and is thought to have stayed outside being handed the stolen goods.
He was later recorded by police saying he wished hed taken a photo during the raid.
Police have described him as a career criminal and he was also involved in the well-known Security Express heist in east London in 1985.
Perkins died in prison on February 5, 2018 at the age of 69 while watching rugby on television.
He was due to stand trial for the Chatila heist while serving seven years for the Hatton Garden raid.
Daniel Jones
Danny Jones
Daniel Jones was described as an eccentric Walter Mitty character during the trial when one of the accused men told of his strange habits.
He is one of the two men who actually got through the small hole the gang drilled into the vault and went through safety deposit boxes before handing out the loot.
He was caught on CCTV wearing an eccentric outfit during the raid, complete with striped trousers, a hi-viz waistcoat, red trainers and a navy baseball cap.
Police found a box of dust masks, the book Forensics for Dummies, a drill, balaclavas and a walkie-talkie at his house.
Jones has a lengthy criminal record dating back to 1975, with convictions for robbery, handling stolen goods and and burglary.
He was initially jailed for seven years in March 2016 after admitting conspiracy to commit burglary however a further six years and 287 days was later added to this after he failed to pay back £6,599,021.
John Kenny Collins
John Kenny Collins
John Kenny Collins was part of the Islington side of the gang and has a long string of convictions for crimes including robbery, handling stolen goods and fraud dating back to 1961.
He was the driver for the gang waited in vehicles outside the safety deposit company on both nights of the Hatton Garden raid and acted as a lookout. It was his link to the white Mercedes which the first step in police tracking down the raiders.
He also drove the white Ford Transit van which was used in the heist.
The court heard he was described as wombat-thick by his accomplices and prosecutors said he lost the plot in the weeks after the raid.
During the raid, he was caught on CCTV wearing a smart green quilted cap and carrying a briefcase as he took up a look-out post in the building opposite.
He was released from prison in 2019 after serving half of his seven-year sentence .
However after failing to pay back the millions of pounds he stole he was jailed for another 2,309 days.
William Billy Lincoln
William Billy The Fish Lincoln
William Billy Lincoln was recruited by ringleader John Kenny Collins as a trusted family member to control a large part of the loot following the heist.
Lincolns aunt Milly Garrett lived with Collins as his common law wife in Islington.
He has a string of convictions for attempted burglary, burglary and attempted theft between 1975 and 1985, but his most recent conviction was for battery in 2013.
The married father-of-two was a well known character at the famous Billingsgate fish market where he would buy haddock, kippers, eels and salmon to sell on to friends and family members.
Lincoln was instrumental in organising the exchange of the bags of loot and was arrested after police boxed in his black Audi A3 before smashing the window and dragging him out of the car.
He was given a seven-year sentence.
Carl Wood
Carl Wood
Carl Wood was a trusted associate of the ringleaders, recruited as an extra pair of hands to pull off the heist.
Wood grew up in Hackney and has two adult daughters who have children of their own.
He was diagnosed with Crohns disease in his early 20s, an inflammatory bowel disease which he claimed often left him bed-ridden and in agony.
In conversations recorded by police bugs, Terry Perkins suggests Wood was vouched for by his old friend Billy Hickson, who stood trial alongside Perkins over the £6million Security Express heist.
Wood was around £20,000 in debt, but in January 2015 attended the Adventure Travel Show, at the Kensington Olympia, featuring once-in-a-lifetime travel experiences in apparent anticipation of his future wealth.
He did not attend the planning meetings, but was regularly updated by his friend of 30 years, Daniel Jones.
The pair would regularly meet for walks followed by sandwiches and coffee at their local gardening centre.
Dressed in dark clothing, hi-visibility waistcoat and navy baseball cap and wearing a white surgeons style mask dark gloves and glasses, Wood was one of the men who entered 88-90 Hatton Garden on the first night of the raid.
He was jailed for six years for the crime.