10 BIGGEST Craziest Heists Ever

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from 850,000 missing bitcoins to harvey's casino robbery these are the biggest craziest heists ever number 10 the theft of the Mona Lisa before Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa was considered the most famous piece of artwork the Louvre did not hide it behind bulletproof glass in fact it only took one guy in a lab coat to steal this painting in 1911 Vincenzo Peruggia was a former worker at the Louvre who snuck inside the museum waited for the room where the painting hung to empty out took the painting of the four iron pegs wrapped it in his lap coat and left the building the same way he came in through a side door he hid the painting for two years inside a trunk in France and later moved it inside a different trunk in his new apartment in Italy he grew impatient and eventually tried to sell the painting to an art gallery weird I know he was busted immediately and the painting was returned to the Louvre safely if you're thinking about doing a quick theft of the Mona Lisa again know that it is worth about seven hundred and eighty million dollars so security has definitely beefed up just a little bit number nine America's data the Equifax breach short and to the point in today's online world data is sometimes more valuable than cash sure the amount of personal data that Facebook air quotes lost is horrible and leaves a pretty bad taste in your mouth but it's nothing compared to the amount of personal highly sensitive data Equifax gave away around one hundred and forty five point five million Americans up to forty four million British and eight thousand Canadian residents were affected by the breach and let's be honest you signed up for the Facebook one from the simple stuff like previous addresses to the unthinkable Social Security numbers everything was nothing has happened with the company yet and after a sharp decline in their stock value it seems to be normalizing again what do you think should any one company hold this much personal data and what is the alternative number eight empty docks if you have lost a bunch of money on the crypto market in the past three months you shouldn't feel too bad a 70 percent correction is awful but it's not as bad as losing 100 percent of your holdings that's exactly what happened to most users of the now-infamous online exchange mt.gox site note I always feel like I want to call it mal Cox but it actually stands for a Magic the Gathering online exchange what does Magic the Gathering have to do with Bitcoin nothing the owner of the website decided to capitalize on the emerging cryptocurrency market back in 2010 by 2014 the exchange was handling more than 70% of all Bitcoin transactions in the world that was in January in February the exchange suspended trading and by April the company began liquidation proceedings even though most traders knew they were screwed empty GOx announced that about 850,000 bitcoins were missing in 2014 that was about 450 million dollars at the height of the market in 2017 the bitcoins would have been valued at a cool 17 billion dollars around 200,000 coins have been recovered from different wallets but the rest are likely to never see the light of day again so to speak the exchange was run so poorly that someone siphoned all those coins in a three-year span beginning in 2011 as the saying goes sorry for your loss is just money bro number 7 the central bank of Iraq robbery in early March 2003 days before the u.s. shock-and-awe attack on iraq saddam hussein decided to do some bank withdrawals March 18th 4:00 a.m. three large box trucks pulled up to the central bank of Iraq and spent five hours loading up hundreds of boxes filled with cash around us 1 billion in dollars to be exact it was Saddam's insurance money he was trying to make sure that he and his son would have enough cash for the rest of eternity and everything was going great until the eventual collapse of the country and the death of both Saddam and his son the money was seized by US forces when they found aluminum boxes containing four million dollars in cash each during the counting process hundreds of thousands of dollars disappeared or made their way to the USA some 35 US service members were convicted of theft a major was called with four hundred and forty thousand dollars in a captain with seven hundred thousand dollars it is believed that these guys were the dumb ones that got caught and in reality the people who stole millions were a bit more elusive number six the world's biggest art thief not to be confused with Budweiser bright Weiser is one of the most notorious figures in the art world between 1995 and 2001 Stefan bright Wiser's stole 239 pieces of art with a worth estimated around 1.4 billion dollars he took the art works from 172 museums all over Europe how was he able to achieve this by travelling Europe and working as a waiter plus his girlfriend was an accomplice and often kept the lookout while Stefan did the dirty work one of the more notable thefts happened at Sotheby's auction house where he stole a seven million dollar painting that was supposed to go on sale later that day he never sold any of the artworks instead he kept them hidden inside his mother's house in France Stefan was eventually arrested in 2001 and while the police were investigating his mother decided to destroy many paintings and throw a lot of artifacts in the Rhine River yep that's right the person who stole art because he loved it so much was responsible for its destruction and what can be considered the biggest if I can have it no one can moment in the art world mr. Stefan received a brutal long three-year sentence which he only served 80% of his mother also received a 3-year sentence but only served 18 months number five the Lufthansa heist December 11th 1978 five point eight seven million dollars worth of cash and jewelry goes missing from the JFK International Airport in New York City the robbery was dubbed the Lufthansa heist and at the time was the largest cash robbery committed on US soil everything began when a fella named Henry Hill learned of a way to steal millions of untraceable cash and shared his plan with the criminal Jamie Burke who was an associate of Dellucci Ezek crime family Lufthansa flew in American currency that was exchanged in West Germany every month they would keep the cash in a vault at the Kennedy Airport and then disperse it to banks Jimmy Burke organized the heist with a little bit of help from airport workers and on December 11th armed masked men stole almost six million dollars in the span of 61 minutes and they would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for those meddling kids seriously though the guy who was supposed to dispose of the van used in the theft decided to go party at his girlfriend's house instead he also parked the van in a no-parking zone the cops wasted no time tying the van to the robbery and the house of cards started falling down Jimmy Burke became paranoid and started killing off everyone who was involved in the heist none of the money was recovered and we got one of the best crime movies ever Goodfellas investigators are still trying to tie up all the loose ends but with each passing day the job gets harder says the people they are investigating are either dead or in their late 60's number four the Gardner Museum heist during the continued festivities of Saint Patrick's Day in 1990 the Isabella Gardner Museum was visited by two police officers who were responding to a disturbance call one of the two guards on duty that night decided to let them in surprisingly the officers claimed that the security guard looked familiar and arrested him on the spot then the other security guard showed up instead of saving his buddy he was also quickly arrested after some pleading with the officers the two guards finally realized what was happening after one of the police officers told them that this was no arrest but in fact a robbery so the fake officers of the law spent 81 minutes stealing various paintings including two Rembrandt's and most notably the concert by the Dutch painter johannes vermeer this painting is valued at over 200 million dollars and it is the most expensive stolen painting ever in total the thieves took 13 pieces or 500 million dollars worth of art and disappeared into the night and that's it they were never caught but the FBI is still actively pursuing leads and their latest house raid was in May 2016 the Gardner Museum still has the empty frames on display awaiting the return of the paintings they also have a five million dollar reward for the safe return of the art number three the Antwerp diamond heist the Antwerp diamond centre in Belgium was the scene of the biggest diamond heist east and west of the Mississippi leonardo notarbartolo rented an office in the same building where he posed as an Italian diamond merchant to gain credibility in a 24 hour access to the center he stuck with the ruse for two and a half years until it was time for the ultimate heist his crew gained access to the main vault through sheer ingenuity the vault that was protected by seismic sensors Doppler radars a lock with 100 million possible combinations infrared heat detectors and even a magnetic field in other words it was supposed to be impenetrable the thieves broke into 123 out of the 160 safe-deposit boxes and made away with more than 100 million dollars worth of diamonds jewelry and gold they also stole the surveillance footage and it seemed like they had thought of everything well almost just like any genius thief Leonardo made just one crucial mistake when he was getting rid of the security tapes he also threw away a half-eaten sandwich and through DNA testing he was implicated in the robbery he never gave up anyone else from the crew and received a 10-year sentence none of the stolen property was ever recovered and since this is such an awesome story JJ Abrams is expected to produce the movie about it number two securitas Depot robbery the securitas Depot robbery is considered the largest cash robbery in British history On February 21st 2006 the manager of the Depot was abducted along with his wife and daughter he was then driven to the depot at 1:00 a.m. the masked gunman bound and gagged the 14 employees that were working and proceeded to take around 60 million dollars in cash securities offered a three million dollar reward for anyone that had any information about the theft or the perps luckily for them the cops did their job investigating this case and after about one year of raids and arrests they had recovered 13 million dollars in cash and arrested 36 people in connection with the robbery the main thieves got sentences ranging from 10 to 25 years number one Harvey's resort hotel heist this bomb because the mechanism - told the detonators in it was set off and a movement of Western Bank and one of the open end Richter scale don't ice flood or - the ball there's a sandwich and an atmospheric pressure switch Sattar 26:33 also attach to detonators do not try to take it apart the flathead speeds are also attached to triggers and as much is needful to see fortunately and holy exposure in other words this bomb is so sensitive that the slightest movement either inside or outside in came to exclude this is the ominous note that Bob Vinson a graveyard shift supervisor at Harveys wagon-wheel casino in Lake Tahoe found in the early hours of August 27 1980 the note was attached to this honking piece of metal which was filled to the brim with TNT and had 23 ominous switches so that was letter number one the second letter consisted of the mystery man's demands I used $100 bills they must be a Mont on board and chemically untreated isn't like everyone with the money then you stop all instructions through the ball at some point right in between reading these two letters everyone involved realize that this is not a joke at all nearby businesses were also evacuated by the National Guard and the FBI quickly set up camp across the street the demands of the robbers only increased in difficulty the plan was extremely thought-out and included every detail a chopper was to gather the money fly to a deserted airfield cut off all contact with law enforcement and await more instructions the final instructions that the pilot found were the time you received a telephone call you have three minutes to get there about 150 to the west on the right hand side in a straight line down below over 500 feet about the elevation of the terrain approximately 15 miles west of the airport starting first red light on your right we are definitely at a 45 degree angle in your direction and the turn on the strobe automatically water catches you in its rage again no communication with anyone or by any means grass tennis when a few meters long because I was four minutes in let's move off on the other side of these instructions was a man by the name of John Burgess senior a Hungarian immigrant who at one point was a millionaire due to his business success unfortunately he had a pretty big gambling problem and spent most of his fortune at Harveys Resort and Casino he wanted his money back one way or another and he even made his two children and his girlfriend part of the plan anyway back to the story the helicopter pilot misunderstood the directions and flew the wrong way until his fuel was depleted he then proceeded to go back to the airfield hoping for more instructions but the instructions never came as John Burgess senior was busy driving back to his hometown of Fresno the FBI decided the best thing to do was to try and defuse the bomb by blowing up the upper half which they believed housed the fail-safes and the detonator it was a solid plan but it did not work either by mistake or malice the explosives in the machine were not TNT but dynamite dynamite is much harder to control and it explodes way easier than TNT the damage to the building was substantial but repairable it took about 18 million dollars to restore the building to its former glory the would-be robbers retreated and try to get rid of evidence that connected him with the explosion but they did not do the greatest job as it turns out one of the sons shared the whole plan with an ex-girlfriend of his who in turn told her new boyfriend who in turn went to the feds and told him everything he knew after a lengthy and thorough investigation both sons turned on their father and spilled every single beam they received immunity for their cooperation John Burgess senior was sentenced to 20 years in prison and he died of liver cancer before he could get out the FBI still has a replica of the machine on display and they even used it in training exercises many agents claimed that even modern-day bomb squad units would not be able to do anything to disarm it safely Jimmy Burgess senior wanted to pull off a slick heist and get away with 3 million dollars his plan failed he died in prison and because you know that he hated so much got an 18 million dollar facelift there's a lesson to be learned somewhere in there check out the featured comment below subscribe for more world on earth and I'll see you in the next video

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Published: Thu Apr 12 2018

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