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The biggest robberies in the world
Some criminals rob banks, some museums.
The largest in the world is considered to be the robbery of a mail train committed in 1963.
It's amazing that there are also funny robberies.
The most notorious bank robberies
Bank robberies are always associated with considerable risk, they often resemble the plots of adventurous movies.
Almost always, robberies are widely covered in the press.
There are five of the most high profile bank robberies.
The robbery of the United California bank in 1972 is recognized as one of the most daring
In the first place is the robbery of the United California bank that occurred in the seventies of the last century.
The robbers suddenly broke into his room and took everything that was in the safes.
Taking into account inflation, their revenue is equal to one hundred million dollars.
All seven participants in that robbery were soon arrested.
In second place is the event that took place in 2006 at the Bank of England.
The manager of the bank's depository was forced to open the vault, where ninety two and a half million dollars were lying, since the robbers held his entire family hostage.
About $ 100 million was stolen from the Bank of England
One hundred and thirty million rubles were stolen from the Russian company Inkahran in March 2011, when this company was transporting funds from several banks.
This became possible due to the collusion of one of the collectors with criminals.
In Brazil, a high profile robbery of a storage facility was committed by digging from a neighboring apartment building.
The crime occurred in 2009 during the final of the football championship.
Then the amount of stolen funds amounted to six million dollars.
About 130 million rubles were once stolen from collectors in Russia
The fifth place is occupied by a robbery that was committed in France by a collector named Tony.
He simply stole a collection car with seventeen million dollars in it and, once on the territory of Monaco, surrendered to the authorities.
Famous museum robberies
Among the most famous museum robberies is the sensational robbery of the Isabella Gardner Museum in Boston, during which twelve paintings by famous artists were stolen.
The cost of paintings today, according to experts, is from three hundred to five hundred million dollars.
The FBI, after almost twenty three years, announced that it had managed to identify the criminals, but they still do not know where the paintings are.
A reward of five million dollars is offered for any information.
Criminals steal not only money, but also museum valuables
Another sensational robbery took place at the Emil Burleigh Museum, located in Zurich.
On one of the February days of 2008, the criminals, wearing ski masks, took out of this museum four paintings that are masterpieces of impressionism.
Their estimated value is at least one hundred and sixty four million dollars.
One of the most daring robberies of museums was committed by criminals in ski masks
The most planned of the museum robberies is the robbery of the Paris Museum of Modern Art, which took place in 2010.
As a result, this National Museum was missing five of the most precious paintings.
At first, their cost was estimated at five hundred million euros, but later the cost was reduced to one hundred and twenty seven million.
The most striking robberies in Russia.
In Russia, bright robberies also occur from time to time.
One of them is the robbery of the Hermitage in 2001.
"The pool in the harem" is the name of the canvas stolen from this museum, which was purchased at one time by Alexander III.
The robbery occurred at a time when the caretaker of the hall was absent.
The kidnapper simply cut out the picture and left.
Its cost is about one million dollars.
The most striking and large scale robbery of a Russian bank was committed in 2007.
A criminal group entered the Chita branch of the Baikal Security Service, killing the guards.
Their "catch" amounted to more than thirty eight million rubles, as well as silver and gold bars.
In 2007, the painting "Pool in the Harem"was stolen from the Hermitage
In February 2009, a group of criminals took possession of an amount of forty three million rubles.
The funds were transported by employees of the First Processing Bank from Rostov on Don to the Russian capital.
The robbers, disguised in the uniform of the traffic police, simply stopped their car, which was following the route without protection.
The funniest robberies.
Some robberies turn out to be very funny and ridiculous.
A planned bank robbery that occurred in the city of Columbia is recognized as such.
The criminal, having broken into the room and laid everyone on the floor, only after announcing his demands realized that he was in an animal clinic.
It turned out that the bank had already moved out of this room.
Another funny robbery took place in London.
The robber decided to commit a crime in the morning, and it turned out that there was no cash there yet.
He was really outraged, so he demanded a book of complaints, where he described the situation.
By then, the police had arrived at the bank and arrested him.
Sometimes robbers leave the scene of a crime empty handed
In Lower Saxony, one of the criminals decided not to commit a robbery.
A man, breaking into one of the houses, threatened the nanny of two seven year old children with a gun.
They gave the robber all their savings with a request to release the woman.
This act pitied the thief, and he left the house.
The biggest robbery of the twentieth century – the Great Train Robbery
To date, the largest robbery is considered to be the robbery of a mail train.
It was done with grace and without sacrifice in 1963.
That's what they call it – "The Great Train Robbery".
The "Great Train Robbery" is called the most high profile crime of the twentieth century
The performers were members of a gang led by Bruce Reynolds.
The object of their attack was a postal service train.
They stole two million six hundred thousand pounds sterling, which in the form of bills fit in one hundred and twenty bags.
More than half of all the stolen items have not been found until today.
Some crimes and criminals are really amazing.
For example, in the United States, an 11 year old child was sentenced to life imprisonment.
On the website uznayvse.ru there is an article about the youngest prisoner in the world.
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