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HERE is a list of the other major bank robberies.
THE DAR ES SALAAM BANK HEIST
Stolen: US$282 million
To this day, few details are known about the 2007 robbery at Dar Es Salaam Bank, a private financial institution in Baghdad, Iraq. It’s unclear why the bank had so much American cash on hand to steal.
Allegedly, the theft was orchestrated by several bank guards. The government suspected the robbers also had contacts within local police and militias that allowed them to pass through the many checkpoints across Baghdad undetected.
No further information has been released about the whereabouts of the money or those responsible.
THE BRINK’S-MAT BURGLARY
Stolen: US$41 million
Britain’s most notorious bank heist was an inside job.
On the morning of the heist in 1983, a Brink’s-Mat security guard named Anthony Black let a group of robbers into the company’s warehouse at London’s Heathrow Airport. They tied up other guards.
The crew quickly realised the warehouse held not only a lot of money but also gold and diamonds. They made off with US$41 million in loot, and wished the guards a merry Christmas on the way out. Most of the robbers were caught — but the gold remains at large.
THE NORTHERN BANK ROBBERY
Stolen: US$41 million
The week before Christmas 2004, robbers in Belfast, Northern Ireland, dressed as police officers and entered the homes of two bank managers. Their families were held hostage, and the managers were instructed to go to work as normal the next day.
When the workday ended, the managers let the thieves into the bank, where they stole about 26.5 million British pounds and additional foreign currencies in the biggest bank robbery in Irish history.
The case is still unsolved and so far only one person has been arrested, for money laundering.
THE UNITED CARLIFONIA BANK HEIST
Stolen: US$30 million
In 1972, Amil Dinsio, a professional criminal from Ohio, assembled a gang of six robbers and flew them to California. They rented a town house and planned a heist on a bank where they had (mistakenly) heard President Richard Nixon kept a multimillion dollar slush fund.
The crew dynamited their way into the vault, stole $30 million worth of cash and valuables, and fled after meticulously scrubbing down the town house.
The cops eventually identified the robbers through a generous tip they’d given a taxi driver — and through fingerprints found on the inside of the town home’s dishwasher.
THE DUNBAR ARMOURED ROBBERY
Stolen: US$18.9 million
In 1997, six men pulled off what remains the biggest cash heist in the history of the United States. The leader was Allen Pace, who turned out to be the worst “safety inspector” the Dunbar Armored trucking company ever employed.
Pace timed the security cameras at the Dunbar facility in Los Angeles so he could avoid them, and recruited five childhood friends to help him rob the vault. They broke in, assaulted two guards on their lunch breaks and loaded US$18.9 million dollars into a U-Haul.
They almost got away with it — except one robber got sloppy and lent some of the stolen cash to a friend without removing the original cash straps. – moneywise.com
