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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 ...
The Antwerp diamond heist, dubbed the "heist of the century", [1] was the largest ever diamond heist and one of the largest robberies in history. Thieves stole loose diamonds, gold, silver and other types of jewelry valued at more than $100 million. [2] [3] It took place in Antwerp, Belgium, during the weekend of 15–16 February 2003. Though ...
Contemporary news illustration of Agar and Burgess in the guard's van, emptying the safes of the gold. The Great Gold Robbery took place on the night of 15 May 1855, when a routine shipment of three boxes of gold bullion and coins was stolen from the guard's van of the service between London Bridge station and Folkestone while it was being shipped to Paris.
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.
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 ...
The Lufthansa heist was a robbery which took place at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport on December 11, 1978. An estimated US$5.875 million (equivalent to US$28.32 million in 2024) was stolen, with $5 million in cash and $875,000 in jewelry, making it the largest cash robbery committed in the U.S. at the time.
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Overall, the outlaws made off with "$60,000 [equivalent to $1,716,750 in 2023] in newly minted twenty-dollar gold pieces from the express car and $1,300 plus four gold watches from the passengers", [3] accounting for the "first and greatest robbery of a Union Pacific train" and placing Bass in the midst of a crucial turning point in his life.