The 2005 Banco Central burglary in Fortaleza, Brazil, was once recognized by Guinness Book of World Records as the world's greatest bank robbery.

The robbers posed as landscapers and dug a tunnel to the vault Most of the robbers were caught - but the gold remains at large. They made off with $41 million in loot, and wished the guards a merry Christmas on the way out. The crew quickly realized the warehouse held not only a lot of money but also gold and diamonds. On the morning of the heist in 1983, a Brink’s-Mat security guard named Anthony Black let a group of robbers into the company’s warehouse at London's Heathrow Airport. The Brink's-Mat burglaryīritain’s most notorious bank heist was an inside job. The case is still unsolved and so far only one person has been arrested, for money laundering. When the workday ended, the managers let the thieves into the bank, where they stole about 26.5 million British pounds and additional foreign currencies in the biggest bank robbery in Irish history. Their families were held hostage, and the managers were instructed to go to work as normal the next day.

The week before Christmas 2004, robbers in Belfast, Northern Ireland, dressed as police officers and entered the homes of two bank managers. Thieves forced the bank managers to let them into the vault after hours Sign up for Credit Sesame and see everything your credit score can do for you, find the best interest rates, and save more money at every step of the way.

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