$68 million dollar bank heist
Permalink | August 13th, 2005
It appears as though Brazlian police received a break in their investigation into the largest bank heist in Brazil’s history. Last weekend thieves broke into a branch of the central bank in Notheast Brazil and removed 156 million reais ($68 million). They accomplished this by way of a tunnel that they had been digging for nearly three months which ran from a rented house to the vault of the bank, approximately 260 feet away.
The break came Wednesday night when police were tipped off to a car carrier which contained all new cars that are believed to have been purchased by the thieves.
A police spokesman said the vehicle was loaded with several cars that the robbers had bought from a dealer in Fortaleza with cash from the bank raid.
Police also found 1 million reais in packets hidden in the front seat of one of the cars. “All the other cars that were on the transporter will checked,” he said.
Police detained the driver of the truck and its owner, who was traveling with him. It was not clear whether they had any involvement in the robbery or just transported the cars.
Now, I wonder which one of the thieves thought it’d be a good idea to buy a truck load of cars, in cash, just after the largest bank heist in Brazil’s history. I don’t think that was part of the original script.
[via Houston Chronicle]
