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7 Greatest Robberies of all time that'll surprise you (A Thread)

1. Sadam Hussein, Iraq 2003
You'll think the greatest heist will involve lots of guns but NO, it required just a handwritten note given to Iraq central bank's governor. The money stolen was $1billion

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Qusay, Saddam son came to the bank which has ONLY ONE ENTRANCE, the front door at 4AM with al-Hamid Mahmood, the president's PA and a letter from Saddam stating that they needed to move the money as a matter of national security. It took a team of workers 5hours to load $1b in...

The truck which was Taken away before most of the bank's employees reported for work in the morning. They left with 1/4 of the bank’s funds that day without making a single threat. Years later, money turned up in many places. There was $650million found in one of Saddam’s palaces

2. Coincheck hack, 2018

Coincheck is a bitcoin company in Japan, In January 2018, they were hacked and $530million worth of btc were stolen. The biggest digital heist in history. The currency was sent to 19 accounts, while none of this accounts has any connection with the hacker

3. Sumitomo bank, London, 2004

This would have been the biggest heist in British history if the robbers had did some research. On the first visit, they walked in to the bank to install keyloggers on the bank computers and to grab bank information of customers, they came back...

To the bank the 2nd time and attempted to transfer money to their foreign accomplices account but they don't know how to use the bank SWIFT system, they failed 23 consecutive times and were caught trying to make off with $318 million in cash.

4. The Harry Winston heist, Paris, 2008

Probably the easiest heist in history, The thieves took a tour of the store, they already had sufficient info about the store and the robbery. They came in as a woman wearing wigs and they already knew where the jewels were kept...

And called employees by their first names. They grabbed the stash of diamonds worth $108 million and promptly took off, never to be seen or heard from again.

5. The Antwerp diamond heist, 2003

The Diamond Center in Belgium houses 160 vaults where precious stones are kept but four people managed to bypass one of the most complex security systems in the world, it was protected by multiple security systems, including a lock with 100M...

Possible combinations, infrared heat detectors, a seismic sensor, Doppler radar, and a magnetic field. The building itself had a private security force, The heist happened over the weekend and close to 109 safe deposit boxes were looted. The theft was only discovered on Monday...

After the traders came back to work. The robbers made off with $100 million worth of diamonds. They were later caught but the diamonds were never recovered

6. The Kent Securitas Depot Robbery, England

This robbery is the largest amount of money ever stolen from a British bank. Six robbers kidnapped and coerced the manager of the Depot to cooperate, the thieves made off with $95 million and the leader of the heist was later arrested

7. Banco Central Brazil, 2005

A gang of robbers disguised as a company in a nearby building, dug a tunnel for 3months, measuring 78m long, at 4m below street-level, which ended directly below the Bank, The tunnel was expertly constructed and had sophisticated lighting and even..

an air conditioning system. They broke into the vault and made off with $70million. Since then, police have arrested suspects & recovered about $9 million of the haul, but the majority of the suspects are still at large. Some legendary Hollywood movie type of shit!

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