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The Brink's-Mat robbery was one of the largest robberies in British history, with £26 million (equivalent to £111 million in 2023 [1]) worth of gold bullion, diamonds, and cash stolen. It occurred at the Heathrow International Trading Estate, London , on 26 November 1983, from a warehouse operated by Brink's-Mat, a former joint venture ...
Frank Gardiner (1830 – c. 1882) was an Australian bushranger who became notorious for his lead role in the largest gold heist in Australian history, at Eugowra, New South Wales in June 1862. Gardiner and his gang , which included bushrangers Ben Hall , John O'Meally and John Gilbert , made off with a pile of cash and 77 kilograms of gold ...
Leishman was the mastermind behind the largest gold theft in Canadian history. [1] This record stood for over 50 years, until it was surpassed by the Toronto Pearson airport heist in 2023. After being caught and arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Leishman managed to escape twice, before being caught and serving the remainder ...
The largest gold heist in Canadian history was carried out with remarkable ease: A fraudulent shipping document for a load of farm-raised Scottish salmon was used to brazenly snatch $14.5 million ...
The largest heist was £291.9 million (equivalent to £840 million in 2023) [4] taken in the City bonds robbery, although Charles Darwin's notebooks (announced as having been most likely stolen in 2020) were never valued. The largest cash robbery was the Securitas depot robbery. The heists vary in location and form.
They successfully completed a $750,000 gold heist in 1974 from the Ottawa airport. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] They were arrested after that robbery and all escaped from prison by 1979. [ 5 ] Then, they carried out a large number of bank robberies in the 1980s along the California coast, where they stole large sums of money.
Six people have been arrested in last year’s multimillion-dollar gold heist at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport, police in Canada and the US said Wednesday. Airline worker among six ...
A Florida man has been arrested over the 2015 robbery of $4.9 million in gold in a roadside heist, the FBI said Wednesday. Man arrested in Florida over $5 million gold heist in 2015 Skip to main ...