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The Bank Rio robbery took place on 13 January 2006 in the town of Acassuso, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.It involved Fernando Araujo, the leader and executor of the heist; Mario Vitette Sellanes, called by the media "the man in the gray suit"; [1] Sebastián ("the Martian") and Alberto "Beto" de la Torre; together with the support of associates that did not enter the bank.
Bank robbery is the criminal act of stealing from a bank, specifically while bank employees and customers are subjected to force, violence, or a threat of violence. This refers to robbery of a bank branch or teller , as opposed to other bank-owned property, such as a train , armored car , or (historically) stagecoach .
Banco Itaú Argentina was an Argentine bank owned by the Brazilian bank Itaú Unibanco. [2] [3] [4] The bank was acquired by Banco Macro on November 3, 2023. [5] [6] It was founded in 1998 after the purchase of Banco del Buen Ayre. [7] The bank had 99 bank branches and 140 ATMs across the country and more than 400,000 customers. [citation needed]
The Aryan Republican Army (ARA), also dubbed "The Midwest Bank bandits" by the FBI and law-enforcement, was a white nationalist terrorist gang [1] which robbed 22 banks in the Midwest from 1994 to 1996. The bank robberies were spearheaded by Donna Langan.
Banco Itaú began in 1945 under the name Banco Central de Crédito (Central Bank of Credit) and later changed its name to Banco Federal de Crédito (Federal Bank of Credit). In 1964, Banco Federal Itaú S.A. merged Banco Federal de Crédito and Banco Itaú, a rural bank belonging to a group originated in Itaú de Minas, in Minas Gerais state. [1]
The institution was born with R$575 billion in assets, a net equity of around R$51.7 billion and a portfolio of combined credit of R$225.3 billion. The new bank had 4,800 branches and service branches, representing 18% of Brazil's banking network, and 14.5 million account holders (18% of the market).
Macro BMA was an Argentine banking entity owned by Banco Macro between November 2023 and November 2024. It was a successor to the Argentine subsidiary of the Brazilian Itaú bank, created on November 4, 2023, one day after the Argentine Central Bank authorized Grupo Macro to acquire the aforementioned subsidiary.
The book documents the Havelock Bank Robbery of the Toronto Dominion Bank in 1961 and the police chase of the robbers. [1] [5] The book describes the two years of planning that went into the robbery, learning the patterns of the staff and the timing of the managers vacation. [6] It details the limited capacity of the local police force. [6]