The largest UK heist on record in terms of the amount stolen was the 1990 City bonds robbery, when a courier carrying 301 bearer bonds worth £291.9 million (equivalent to £710 million in 2021) was robbed on a small City of London street.
The 2006 Securitas depot robbery in Tonbridge, England, was the UK's largest cash heist. It began with a kidnapping on the evening of 21 February 2006 and ended in the early hours of 22 February, when seven criminals stole almost £53 million.
In 2007, the Dar Es Salaam Bank in Baghdad was robbed by a group of armed men who made away with $282 million in cash and valuables. The 2007 Dar Es Salaam Bank robbery in Baghdad, Iraq remains shrouded in mystery.
In January 1976, amid the chaos of the Lebanese Civil War, a group of robbers staged the largest-ever theft of safe-deposit boxes, according to the Guinness World Records. The target was the British Bank of the Middle East in Beirut.
In the early morning hours of February 22, 2006, a gang of at least six men, some of them armed, steal £53 million from the Securitas bank depot in Kent, Great Britain. It was the largest such theft in British history.
The Antwerp diamond heist, dubbed the "heist of the century", 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.
The 2005 Banco Central burglary in Fortaleza, Brazil, was once recognized by Guinness Book of World Records as the world's greatest bank robbery. To pull it off, a 25-member gang set up a fake landscaping business. They spent three months digging a 256-foot tunnel that led up through the bank's vault floor.
The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft. Shortly after midnight on March 18, 1990, two men dressed as police officers broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and stole 13 masterpieces including five Degas, three Rembrandts, and a Vermeer.
Brink's-Mat robbery (1983)
The Brink's-Mat facility at Heathrow Airport was broken into by a group of six armed criminals from South London. Mickey McAvoy and Brian Robinson, the leaders of the heist, had hoped to escape with £3m in cash. Instead, they ended up with gold bullion, jewels and cash valued at over £26m.
Consequently, many bank robbers are caught the same day. The clearance rate for bank robbery is among the highest of all crimes, at nearly 60%. The urban location of the crime also contributes to its repeat victimization profile, a measure of how quickly a crime victim will suffer a repeat of the original crime.
The short answer? No, the plots are totally fictional. However, there are important aspects of the show that are rooted in history, art, and philosophy. From season 1 on, the robbers have disguised themselves with masks that resemble Spanish artist Salvador Dalí, who famously sported an exaggerated mustache.
In Victorian London, a gang of U.S. hustlers attempts a ten-million-dollar heist on the safest bank in the world.
The Northern Bank robbery was one the biggest and most high-profile heists in UK history after robbers escaped with £26.5million in cash in Belfast. On December 20, 2004, a gang of three masked men held the families of two Northern Bank cash clerks hostage at gunpoint.
In one of the most audacious bank heists in British history, thieves tunnelled under a Lloyds Bank vault in London and made off with a sizeable loot. Now, over 50 years later, rumours and conspiracy theories surrounding the heist continue to be debated. This is the story of the Baker Street robbery.
William Francis Sutton Jr. (June 30, 1901 – November 2, 1980) was an American bank robber. During his forty-year robbery career he stole an estimated $2 million, and he eventually spent more than half of his adult life in prison and escaped three times.
David Hanrahan's 2011 book tells the true story of the audacious 1855 robbery of more than 80 kg of large gold bars and coins from the London Bridge to Folkestone train.
The Doomsday Heist is arguably one of the most entertaining and popular ones in GTA Online, so it makes sense to have improved payouts. Gamers can do this heist with a maximum of four participants and a minimum of two.
Harry Winston Heist
A group of 4 men, out of which 3 dressed up as women entered the jewelry store and robbed a huge fortune of diamonds worth $108 million. The men were armed and herded the staffs and customers to one corner of the place, while the others broke open the showcases and stole the jewel pieces.
Berlin. In the season 2 finale, Berlin displayed one of the bravest acts of the entire series when he chose to die at the hands of the police. By doing so, he successfully ensured that the heist could be completed safely and his fellow robbers would make it out alive.
Theft rate - Country rankings
The highest value was in Denmark: 3949 thefts per 100,000 people and the lowest value was in Senegal: 1 thefts per 100,000 people.
Burglary rate - Ranking. New Zealand is the top country by burglary rate in the world. As of 2020, burglary rate in New Zealand was 1,150 cases per 100,000 population. The top 5 countries also includes Sweden, Dominica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Denmark.
Bonnie Parker
Wanted by the authorities for several bank robberies and murders, Bonnie Elizabeth Parker was the most notorious female bank robber of the 20th century. She became a hoodlum after meeting her lover, Clyde Barrow, who was already committing crimes at the time.