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The biggest, loudest robberies.
The personalities of the participants, their destinies.
The first robbery of the century
The largest first bank robbery in the world occurred in the United States.
On March 19, 1831, $ 245,000 was stolen from the New York City Bank.
At that time, the amount was truly astronomical.
But some time later, the robber was detained and a significant part of the money was returned.
The name of this gentleman is known from history – Edward Smith, an immigrant from England.
He got off with five years in prison.
Mail train robbery.
On August 8, 1963, one of the most sensational robberies of the twentieth century was committed in England.
Perhaps because this mail train was a royal one.
The criminals stole 2,600,000 pounds, about 60,000,000 dollars at the present time.
The crime immediately received the title of "The Great Train Robbery".
The attackers used the most elementary technique to commit the robbery – they changed the signal of the semaphore.
15 people of the participants used only 20 minutes to unhook 2 cars and, having driven them to a safe distance, print mail bags.
This crime received a great response, because it put the reputation of the British police and the whole of Great Britain at stake.
It was a matter of Scotland Yard's honor to solve the brazen crime by detaining the robbers.
All the robbers received a harsh sentence.
The most famous member of the gang, Ronnie Biggs, escaped from Wandsworth prison some time later.
Only 36 years later, already suffering from cancer, he returned to England and voluntarily surrendered to the authorities.
The leader of the gang, Bruce Reynolds, was given 25 years in prison, another was jailed for 21 years.
Almost all the gang members have served their time.
Someone took up the old, someone has already died, someone was killed in another crime
A three hundred million dollar case
In 1990, the largest museum robbery occurred in the United States, which has not yet been solved.
The criminals again used the most banal technique, disguised as policemen.
Having entered the museum building under the pretext of checking the alarm system, they took out several masterpieces, including the priceless painting " Concert” Vermeer of Delft, 3 paintings by Rembrandt, together with the painting "A Man and a woman in black”, the landscape" Storm in the Galilee” Howard Flink, watercolors by Degas, portrait by Manet.
In total, the amount of the stolen is equal to 300,000,000 dollars!
The perpetrators have not yet been punished.
Bank robbery without leaving the apartment.
Microbiologist Vladimir Levin, a self taught hacker, from June 30 to October 3, 1994, managed to steal $ 12,000,000 from Citibank accounts directly from his apartment.
This crime was committed back in 1994, when few people in Russia had heard about the Internet.
Although, of course, most often robbers prefer to "work" the old fashioned way: physical robbery or theft promises to get a jackpot much easier than new technologies.
The verdict in New York sentenced Levin to 36 years instead of the 60 that threatened him.
In the spring of 1998, he disappeared from prison and was arrested in St. Petersburg in 2000 with another accomplices.
The largest robbery of a financial organization.
This crime was committed in the Brazilian Fortaleza in August 2005.
While the residents were resting, the robbers dragged 3.5 tons of money from the central bank branch, taking a total of 164,800,000 reais into the vault.
As evidence, the criminals left a huge hole in the concrete wall leading through an underground manhole to a neighboring house.
The corridor, 80 meters long, was sheathed with plastic, equipped with a ventilation system and electricity.
36 attackers built this comfortable tunnel for about three months.
They managed to arrest 26 people out of 60, including the leader, who will have to spend 49 years in prison.
Only 53,000,000 reais were returned to the bank.
The most expensive investigation of a crime.
On February 26, 2006, in a quiet Tonbridge, Kent, UK, robbers in police uniforms stopped the car of the manager of a local depository and, taking his family hostage, forced him to return to work, opening them access to money.
The criminals took only 53,000,000 pounds out of the 203,000,000 that were in the vault, everyone just didnot get into the car.
The record in this crime was also set by real police officers, whose costs for investigating the case amounted to 5,000,000 pounds.
As a result, they found only 21,000,000 pounds and put 5 people in jail.
Four were sentenced to 15 years in prison, and the one who supplied the raiders with information was sentenced to 10.
Most of the stolen goods have not yet been found.
A robbery in Zurich.
On February 10, 2008, a crime was committed that threatens to be the "robbery of the century".
The private collection of Emil Buehrle lost paintings, which experts estimate at $ 164,000,000.
The paintings "Poppies in the vicinity of Vetey" by Monet, " The Boy in the Red Vest”were stolen Cezanne, "Count Lepic and his Daughters” by Edgar Degas and" Flowering Chestnut Branches” Van Gogh.
The most expensive of the stolen paintings is rightfully considered “The Boy in the Red Vest” Cezanne.
According to the police, the thieves removed the first paintings they came across, since the most expensive canvases remained untouched.
A reward of 100,000,000 Swiss francs was announced for any information about the stolen canvases.
This robbery is considered the happiest as a result.
A couple of days later, the stolen paintings were found in a car at a psychiatric clinic, which was located near the museum.
Although, not all the paintings were in the car: only two of the four were found.
Plastic Wholesale
In the fall of 2008, about $ 9,500,000 disappeared from the client accounts of the Scottish Royal Bank.
The money “left” through ATMs in the cities of Spain, Japan, Turkey, Great Britain, China, the USA, the Netherlands, Russia, Ukraine, New Zealand and the Philippines.
It turned out that programmers from Russia Viktor Pleshchuk and Evgeny Anikin were involved in the case.
Hackers, working with " colleagues” around the world, broke into the security computer system of the largest bank of Scotland, made fake plastic cards and cashed out millions with their help.
A court in Atlanta (Georgia, USA) accused several participants of hackers in absentia, including Viktor Pleshchuk.
But the Russians were lucky, they were tried at home and sentenced both to 4 and 5 years in prison, and even then conditionally.
And in America, they would have been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Russia, Perm.
250,000,000 rubles.
On June 25, 2009, a collection car was robbed in Perm.
The investigation version considers Alexander Shurman, a collector of the West Ural Bank branch of Sberbank of Russia, a suspect.
The collector, along with his accomplices, disappeared.
And the authorities of the Perm Region announced a reward of $ 10,000 for information that contributes to the capture of criminals.
The next day, Shurman's accomplices – his wife and father in law were detained.
And then the main participant.
Alexander Shurman was given 8 years in a high security colony.
The Winged Stockholm
On September 23, 2009, a robbery occurred, which was not inferior to a sophisticated militant in entertainment.
The attackers landed a helicopter on the glass roof of the company's building, broke a window and descended a rope ladder to the vault.
In just minutes, they blew up the safes, stealing 39,000,000 kronor in banknotes and securities.
Neither the employees nor the police were able to prevent them.
Some of the robbers tied up, and the second left a bag with the inscription “Bomb”at the entrance to the hangar with police helicopters.
Plus, the entrances to the building were pelted with steel hedgehogs.
The investigation went quite quickly and several suspects were caught a few days after the spectacular raid.
The criminals were sentenced to prison for a period of one to 7 years.
And they found only 100,000 crowns.
Banks and museums are most often successful among robbers.
Paintings, like money, are also in demand, despite the fact that the black market can offer only 10 percent of the real price for them.
10 comments on the biggest, loudest robberies.
The personalities of the participants, their destinies.
unnamed :
20.07.2013 at 20: 33
in fact, there are many more successful robberies and unsolved ones.
The police canot solve the majority, the most interesting thing is that it was about 15 years ago... the robbers did everything so elegantly that the police found out about the robbery about 3 months later, and the robbers (there were 4 of them) stole 90,000,000 dollars and disappeared.
no one still knows even how they did it and who)))) this is a robbery)))
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Alexann :
01.07.2013 at 15: 32
Wow, they came up with a good idea with the tunnel)
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Artem :
19.07.2015 at 20: 53
Oh, if we talk about my favorite robbery in history, then without a doubt this is the same robbery on Baker Street, about which they made a film based on real events with Statham.
Of course, the film is a little off the mark, a lot of things were " lied”, but in general the story is reliable.
Right up to the goosebumps.
As they say, people were ready for anything and found themselves in such a mess that they barely raked!
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*7777777* :
01.02.2015 at 23: 50
Yes!
the list of these robbers is impressive!
but these are only teachers.
Talents are those that we have never heard of and the amount of robberies is incomprehensible even to imagine!
approximately in 2005-2010.
at this time, a young group of 5-9 people were robbed through plastic cards, their robbery was 4-6 million a day!
imagine how long they were doing this until customers from abroad found out about an empty card taken in Russia!
and how long it took the employees to calculate them.
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??? :
02.01.2015 at 17: 38
Well done guys!!!
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kvatpyr :
04.08.2014 at 09: 42
Where are Boney and Clyde
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Yevgenia Shcherbakova Koroleva :
13.09.2013 at 19: 25
Tell us more about this robbery, where, when, and the circumstances?
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Our People :
19.04.2012 at 17: 15
There are a lot of fictional things in the biography of Vladimir Levin.
I think he was framed.
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Yevgenia Shcherbakova Koroleva :
08.12.2011 at 18: 08
I think no one really knows how many of them))
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InvestProfi :
08.12.2011 at 16: 11
The craftsmen impress with their audacity and ingenuity.
how many more are there in the world?
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