Over the Easter weekend in 2015 daring thieves made away with an estimated £200m haul of diamonds and other jewellery after robbing safe deposit boxes at Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Ltd in London’s famous diamond quarter district of Hatton Garden.…
Hatton Garden robbers left ‘hundreds’ of items including gold bars, diamonds and jewels behind on vault floor. Police suspect they may have been hunting for one specific mysterious object. One victim, a gold dealer, has now also stated the six…
In the early morning of 18 March 1990, a security guard at the Gardner Museum buzzed in two men with fake moustaches dressed in Boston police uniforms. The “cops” claimed to be investigating a disturbance. They then tied up…
Value of gold stolen today – $322million Recovered – just $2600 The 1855 Gold Robbery On the night of 15 May 1855, three boxes containing gold belonging to Abell and Co., Spielmann, and Bult were delivered by a firm of…
In 2003 Brian Wells, a pizza delivery man, received a call to deliver a pizza to an address which later proved to be fake. When he arrived at the location, two men forced him at gunpoint to put on a…
Over 1,500 pounds of metal was stolen, including over 700 pounds of gold. This was meant to be sent to Zurich and New York. A group of armed robbers stole a haul of gold bullion worth at least…
The Summer Bliss Robbery (2012) – 216 kg Gold Bars November 30, 2012, masked men in “Police” jackets boarded the the “Summer Bliss” fishing boat in Curacao and stole 70 gold bars weighing a total of 216kg with an estimated…
Croydon Airport Gold Robbery (1935) – 20 kg of Gold Bars & Coins The “Croydon Aerodrome Gold Robbery”, also known as “The Imperial Airways Gold Heist” was the theft of just over 20kg of gold bullion, made up of gold…
The Chelambra bank robbery in the Malappuram district of Kerala, India is considered to be one of the biggest and most sensational bank robberies in the crime history of Kerala. In the early hours of 30 December 2007, the robbers…
On the morning of August 23, 1973, an escaped convict crossed the streets of Sweden’s capital city and entered a bustling bank, the Sveriges Kreditbanken, on Stockholm’s upscale Norrmalmstorg square. From underneath the folded jacket he carried in his arms,…
The most incredible robbery of all time took place in Baghdad the day before the US began bombing the city prior to the invasion of 2003. Saddam Hussein was determined to rescue as much as he could for himself and…
London Millennium Dome, 2000 Using a JCB digger to ram down fences, four robbers attempted to steal De Beers diamonds worth over £350m, including the 203 carat De Beers Millennium Star, from a display at the Millenium Dome on 7…
