A female shop assistant was forced to empty the display cabinets before being taken hostage.
Cyber experts said it was most likely that the hackers gained access to Graff's files by sending an email which duped a member of staff into opening a file containing a sophisticated 'ransomware' computer virus.
Daria-Romana Pop, intelligence analyst for cyber threat firm Kela, said: 'After they deliver the ransomware note, the operators usually start leaking data to intimidate the victim.
Osechkin claims to have been given the videos by Sergei Savelyev, a Belarusian former inmate of the jail who claims he was asked to archive the footage - and managed to smuggle some out of the country after his release.