5 Most Impressive Heists of All Time

five greatest heist of all time even if we don't condone them most people are generally fascinated with heists movies like Ocean's eleven and The Sting glamorized these calculated criminal feats and audiences around the world enjoy watching fictional characters escaping with huge piles of cash and jewelry but sometimes these elaborate crimes occur outside of the world of fiction today we're looking at the five greatest heist of all time Antwerp diamond heist the Antwerp diamond district is one of the most heavily secured places in the world with billions of dollars of diamonds changing hands there every year and it was there in 2003 that one gang of thieves pulled off one of the largest diamond heist in history now even though most of the gang known as the school of Turin has since been arrested the diamonds have never been retrieved the robbery was led by leonardo notarbartolo a small-time diamond dealer tenant of the diamond center and a thief responsible for many minor jewel robberies although police believe he was the robberies mastermind he claimed that he was contacted by an unidentified diamond dealer who recruited him for the crime note our Bartolo said he was paid to take pictures of the vaults complex security system from those pictures the dealer constructed a full-sized replica of the vault nor tarball Tolo states that the dealer set him up with a small gang of Italian jewel thieves each with specific skills for the robbery the police are not convinced of the truth of this anonymous diamond dealer however no proof has been found to support this claim the thieves got through the ten layers of security previously thought to be impenetrable they bypassed cameras the combo dial the key block magnetic sensors the locked steel gate light sensors heat and motion sensors and keypad disarming sensors they used aluminum to trick the magnetic field and stripped plastic off the wires of the sensor circuits then they loaded up bags of diamonds and other jewels it took two hours to get it all out of the building but thanks to one game member things eventually fell apart that man was Pedro Tavano known as and one of note our Bartolo x' lifelong friends speedy couldn't handle the pressure after unloading the loot into this car he had to pull over because he was having a panic attack remarkably not a single alarm went off as security guards arrived on Monday morning they realized that the thick steel door to the vault was open in 100 of the 189 safe deposit boxes had been raided with some of the loot still on the floor the world's only specialized diamond police Patrick pays and AG M debry Kerr phoned the vaults alarm company what is the status of the alarm they asked fully-functional came the reply however authorities eventually found to note our Bartolo by watching security footage he was sentenced to 10 years in prison Brazilian bank robbers in 2017 brazil's police arrested 16 men tunneling towards a vault containing 1 billion reais or 318 million dollars and who were on the verge of pulling off the largest ever bank robbery in the country's history authorities swooped just before the alleged gang was able to use its impressively equipped tunnel to enter the safe at a banco do brasil branch in the country's financial capital he would have been the world's biggest heist said police chief fabio Panero Lopez on Globo TV police said work on the tunnel began four months ago starting from a house several blocks from the bank it had sophisticated supports fans and lights the police believe al co-ceo Gomez Noriega was the ringleader of the operation he is a 35 year old man implicated in an attempted robbery of a security van in Paraguay the court ruled the group be held in pretrial detention though it's hard to believe the group dug the tunnel by hand they loaded the soil into sacks and carried it outside through an underground stormwater train to enter the tunnel gang members descended a 2 meter ladder from one of the rooms in the rented house the tunnel was about 1.5 meters high and was reinforced with iron beams and wood and even wired with lights the walls were lined with plastic garbage bags to reduce the dust the tunnel was reported filled with food water special clothing and digging tools police were probing whether the gang had the assistance of an engineer when building the tunnel because the construction was so impressive the tunnel renewed memories of a tunnel robbery 12 years ago when thieves made off with about 70 million u.s. dollars for the previous highest diggers worked in shifts from 8 p.m. until 4:00 a.m. taking a break on weekends a 3-game members involved in that attempt were involved in two separate prison escapes using tunnels equipped with ventilation and lighting $500,000,000 cyber heist started in 2009 cyber criminals from Eastern Europe infiltrated at at least 100 banks in 30 countries raking in as much as 1 billion dollars in fraudulent transfers and hijacked ATM machines over a two-year period they did so with a mysterious Trojan called spy I the attacker struck at Russian banks first as well as those in Germany China and the United States they got away with it initially but soon authorities tracked them down and they were brought to justice Alexander androvich panin the inventor of spy I who went by Elias Rui Bowden Mon and harder man online pleaded guilty to a court of conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud in January 2014 after reaching a deal with prosecutors prosecutor Stephen greenberg said spy I preeminent piece of malware developed from 2010 to 2012 was used to infect more than 50 million computers causing nearly 1 billion dollars in damage to individuals and financial institutions around the world a second man hams have been deluged a 27 year old Algerian known online as B x1 was sentenced to 15 years prosecutors said he sold versions of spy I online and used the malware to steal financial information spy I was a type of Trojan virus that secretly implanted itself on victims computers to steal sensitive information including bank account credentials credit card information passwords and pins but once it took over a computer it allowed hackers to trick victims into surrendering personal information including data grabbing and fake bank account pages the information was relayed to a command and control center to be used to access victim accounts panin conspired with others to advertise spy I in online cybercrime forms and sold versions of the software at prices ranging from 500 to $10,000 FBI special agent mark ray testified panin was the architect of a pernicious malware known as spy AI that infected computers worldwide he commercialized the wholesale theft of financial and personal information and now he's being held to account for his actions US Attorney Sally Yates stressed in a news release too many police agencies don't have the skills to effectively track down an investigate cybercrime tracking down cyber criminals requires a very different skillset from traditional policing which limits the ability of law enforcement to go after cyber criminals it also takes resources and trained personnel which are in many cases in very short supply says Martin Rose leur director of threat research at Trend Micro France's heist of the century French gangster jacques Cassandra was in court in 2018 for a crime committed over 40 years ago police noticed the fact the marci a mafioso was the likely mastermind of the heist of the century after he was discovered to be the anonymous author of a book about the crime on July 16th 1976 a group of criminals robbed a branch of society General Francis 3rd largest bank in the southern city of nice they using the tunnels underneath the city the gang was able to partially destroy the floor beneath the bank's basement vault and gain access to the bank notes jewelry gold bars and safety deposit boxes located within according to the Society General's own account of the incident the brazen criminal spent the weekend taking their time going through the vaults contents even taking the time and luxury to picnic using the depositor silverware he used a pen name but investigators quickly concluded that the writer was Jacque was Cassandra a key mafia figure in Marcel where he is now standing trial he had assumed he was safe because the crime was too old to be prosecuted but Cassandra is being charged with laundering the millions from the heist a crime from which France has no statute of limitations police found the manuscript on Cassandra's computer and his children later confessed that their father had often bragged about the robbery he eventually admitted to orchestrating the intrinsically planned job that involved at least six people in 30 tanks of acetylene to fuel the welding torches used to cut into safes and safety deposit boxes an inquiry found he had also bought furs worth tens of thousands of euros and had once provided the financial guarantee with seven bars of gold he has always said it was a novel and I don't think a court can convict someone on the basis of a novel a lawyer from Cassandra Frederic Monterrey said Monday but Cassandra and his family members are facing a series of questions on his business dealings with prosecutors also alleging Social Security fraud and a real estate scam in Corsica it's not his first time in court having been arrested in the early 1970s when police broke up the French Connection heroin trade centered in Marcel $1000000 pharmacy robbery back in 2016 the owner of a Super Value pharmacy in Fort Worth Texas rang in the new year with a trashed business missing 1 million dollars worth of pharmaceuticals the general manager Jayne la bombe said the pharmacy at 720 North Industrial Boulevard was broken into in the early hours of December 31st the burglars took highly marketable drugs with a street value of up to 1 million dollars she said surveillance footage shows men clad in black crawling and trying to break into a safe spilled pill bottles and cough syrup can be seen in the footage and what appears to be a safe with the sidecut out an employee named Richard Irby said the robber tied him and three employees up with zip ties he said he didn't want to hurt anybody and we sort of took him at his word but he's still waving a gun the scary part I never looked down the barrel of a gun before the robber filled a bag with narcotics and left through the back door Irby knows through other pharmacists the robberies are escalating yellow hydrocodone soma and xanax the big three that most of them are after her be said her be wonders how long it will be before one of those crooks decides the drugs are worth pulling the trigger the video ended up becoming extremely popular with over four million views and Counting [Music] you

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Published: Thu Mar 05 2020