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Added on: 21st Jan 2015

 

CARLTON HOTEL ROBBERY

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The Guinness Book of World Records says the world’s biggest

jewellery robbery took place in August 1994, when three thieves

burst into the most famous Carlton Hotel in Cannes.

Firing machine guns, they robbed the Carlton’s jewellery store

just as it was being closed. They made off with £30m in jewels.

It was later discovered that the rounds they had been firing

were in fact blanks.

 

 

BANCO CENTRAL BURGLARY AT FORTALEZA

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A gang of robbers found their way inside the Banco Central vault,

thanks to a rented house that led them enter through a tunnel dug

underground. As expected of a high-profile bank in Brazil, the vault

was equipped with alarms and various sensors, which were successfully

disarmed. Over five containers of 50 Real Notes were stolen,

amounting to over an estimated $95 million.

 

 

ANTWERP DIAMOND HEIST

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Leonardo Notarbartolo, along with several others, planned to rob

the Antwerp Diamond Centre in Belgium on February 16, 2003.

Since the centre is known for having so many diamonds within its

walls, the thieves apparently started planning three years before their

heist. They rented an office building where Notarbartolo posed as a

diamond merchant to establish ties with the company and its employees.

Known to be the “heist of the century”, the Italian thief and his crew were

able to pull off a $100 million diamond heist in spite of Doppler radar,

a magnetic field, a seismic sensor, infrared sensors, and even layers of

security to thwart them. Even to this day officials are still puzzled

as to how they did it.

 

 

HEIST AT HARRY’S

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Back on December 5, 2008 a few hours before closing time one man

and three women came into the Harry Winston Jewellers to look at

some products. However, what seemed to be simple window-shopping

soon turned into a $108 million heist when the three “ladies” ripped off

their wigs and the four men proceeded with their robbery.

 

 

SCHIPHOL AIRPORT ROBBERY

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Before the heist on 25th February, 2005, four men disguised

themselves as KLM Royal Dutch Airline employees by stealing

uniforms and a cargo truck to avoid suspicion. On the day of the heist,

they drove to a KLM truck that had just hauled in uncut diamonds due

to be delivered to Antwerp. With almost no hiccups whatsoever they

drove away with $118 million and pulled of the largest diamond heist

in history.

 

 

BRITISH BANK OF THE MIDDLE EAST RAID

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In January 1976, £25 million was stolen from the Beirut branch of

The British Bank of the Middle East by a group associated with the

Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). To get to the loot stores in the

bank, a PLO-affiliated group blasted through the wall of a Catholic

church next door to the bank. Over a two-day period, the robbers

loaded trucks with money, gold, jewels, and stocks and bonds.

The thieves were never caught.

 

 

E.G. BÜHRLE ART MUSEUM ROBBERY

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On 11th February, 2008, three men in ski masks forced themselves

into the E.G. Bührle Art Museum in Zurich and took with them four

different paintings that were valued at nearly $139 million. All of them

were genuine 18th century art that included the works of Cezanne, Degas,

Monet, and Van Gogh. They were never recovered.

 

 

KNIGHTSBRIDGE SECURITY DEPOSIT ROBBERY

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Known to be a famous criminal in Italy, Valerio Viccei moved from his

homeland to the UK in order to continue his devious activities along

with one of his accomplices. Their target, Knightsbridge Safe Deposit

Centre was known to have famous and popular clients and patrons.

He planned on being a customer there so that he could rent a

safe deposit box in order to gain access. On July 27th 1987 Valerio and

his companions subdued the manager and employees, the bank was

closed, Viccei called for backup to ransack as much cash as he could,

amounting to £60 million. He could have gotten away clean to

Latin America if he had not returned to get his beloved Ferrari.

 


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