The British Bank of the Middle East Heist In January 1976, amid the chaos of the Lebanese Civil War, a group of robbers staged the largest-ever theft of safe-deposit boxes, according to the Guinness World Records. The target was the British Bank of the Middle East in Beirut.
1) The Central Bank of Iraq Robbery
On March 18, 2003, the Central Bank of Iraq in Baghdad was robbed of approximately $920 million in cash, on the eve of the Iraq War.
1. The Central Bank of Iraq Robbery – $920 million. Baghdad holds the infamous record for the largest bank heist in history. The mastermind was none other than Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
The Antwerp World Diamond Center robbery is one of the most elaborate heists in history, a break-in at a vault two floors underground protected by no fewer than 10 layers of security. Leonardo Notarbartolo disguised himself as a diamond merchant and moved into an apartment next to the center in 2000.
On September 12, 1997, six men robbed the Dunbar Armored facility on Mateo St. in Downtown Los Angeles, California of US$18.9 million (equivalent to $34.5 million in 2022).
William Francis Sutton Jr.
(June 30, 1901 – November 2, 1980) was an American bank robber. During his forty-year robbery career he stole an estimated $2 million, and he eventually spent more than half of his adult life in prison and escaped three times.
You're Nairobi
This fan favourite character is the feminist badass we all aspire to be. If you're the person that always has everyone's backs, you excel at your job, and you're loved by everyone and everything, Nairobi is undeniably your Money Heist character.
On December 15, 1863, a man walked into a bank in Malden, Massachusetts, shot the 17-year-old bookkeeper, and stole $3,000 in large bills and $2,000 in small bills. The directors of the bank offered a $6,000 reward for the arrest of the murderer. This has been described as the first armed bank robbery in US history.
The Dunbar Armored robbery. 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.
A thief known as "Flomenbaum" made off with approximately $28 million worth of uncut diamonds. One of the largest diamond heists ever took place in Antwerp, Belgium, in 2003. With a confirmed value of at least $100 million, the complex crime goes down in the history books.
The five GTA 5 single-player Heists are The Jewel Store Job, The Merryweather Heist, The Paleto Score, The Bureau Raid and The Big Score.
It is a true crime story with characters that one would assume were created out of a very vivid imagination.
Overall it's a pretty good show for mature teen and adult audiences. I wouldn't recommend to those under 14, especially some of the more inappropriate scenes (with sex and drugs).
The van's false bottom would provide concealed entry from a sewer. At 9:00am on Friday, January 13th, 2006, the heist began. Bank Robbers re-enacts the scene in a combination of physical miniature and the men themselves demonstrating with mannequins how they moved through the bank.
Part 1 (also referred to as the first part of season 1) of Netflix's Money Heist consisted of 13 episodes, and aired on December 20, 2017.
Alba González Villa (born October 27, 1986), known professionally as Alba Flores, is a Spanish actress. She is best known for her roles as Saray Vargas in Vis a Vis (Locked Up) and Nairobi in La Casa de Papel (Money Heist). She identifies as lesbian.
Hate: Arturo Roman
One of the most irritable characters in Money Heist is Arturo.
A Brazilian federal police agent, right, and journalists look through the tunnel dug by the robbers August 8, 2005, in Fortaleza, northeastern Brazil. Thieves dug a 260-foot-long tunnel into a Brazilian Banco Central branch to steal around 70 million dollars, the country's biggest-ever bank heist.
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The thieves managed to steal 8.8 million dollars that were meant for the payment of local workers. It was one of the biggest heists in Australia having stolen the largest amount recorded in the country.
Although he was a bank robber, Sutton had the reputation of a gentleman; in fact, people present at his robberies stated he was quite polite. One victim said witnessing one of Sutton's robberies was like being at the movies, except the usher had a gun.