List of bank robbers and robberies

Australia

Robbers

Robberies

Bank of Australia robbery, 1828, £14,000 in promissory notes and coins.
1984 Sydney bank robbery and hostage crisis

Austria

Johann Kastenberger

Belgium

Antwerp Diamond Heist - February 16, 2003 .Almost $100 million worth of diamonds, gold and other jewellery were stolen from the high security underground vaults of Antwerp World Diamond Centre by a 5-man team. In a disciplined, sophisticated manner, they carefully planned and covered all possible loopholes before its execution by training themselves in a replica of the vault. They started their plot months before the heist by renting a space and starting a trading business to blend in.

Brussels Airport diamond heist - February 18, 2013. Robbers escaped with US$50 million worth of diamonds (belonging, again, to the Antwerp World Diamond Centre) stolen from a Swiss-bound Fokker 100 at Brussels Airport.^[1]^[2]

Brazil

Banco Central burglary at Fortaleza – 2005, the largest bank robbery in Brazil and one of the largest in history (US$70.1 million)
Embraforte burglary at Belo Horizonte - 2010. The robbers escaped with approximately US$25 million stolen from a cash transportation company
Japeri Train Robbery - 1960. A major train robbery in Brazil, which occurred in a rural area of the municipality of Japeri, in the state of Rio de Janeiro.
Pinheiro Preto Train Robbery - 1909.

Canada

China

Robberies

Agricultural Bank of China robbery, March–April 2007 the largest bank robbery in China's history (51 million yuan, US$6.7 million).

Robbers

Colombia

Bank of the Republic (Colombia) robbery – On October 16 and 17, 1994, $24 075 million pesos (US$28.8 million ) cash was extracted from the Bank in the city of Valledupar, Colombia. The money was in non-circulating bills of $2000, $5000 and $10000 pesos denominations. The bank had the serial number of every bill stolen.

Denmark

The first bank robbery in Denmark occurred August 18, 1913 in the bank Sparekassen for København og Omegn at Østerbro in Copenhagen. It was carried out by two men, Danish salesman Lindorff Larsen and a German machinist Güttig, armed with revolvers, the two got away with 9000 Danish kroner. Güttig was arrested August 30 and Lindorff Larsen committed suicide after having fled the police.^[3]
The largest bank robbery in Denmark was carried out against the security firm Dansk Værdihåndtering in Brøndby at 5.30 AM on August 10, 2008. The robbers, who were armed with AK-47 assault rifles, got away with 62 million Danish kroner, after having knocked down a wall with a bulldozer. The robbery involved elaborate plans to obstruct the police from arriving at the scene, among other things 11 garbage trucks were set on fire and placed on routes from the nearest police stations to the scene of the crime and caltrops were placed on other key routes. The robbers used 3 getaway cars, which they afterwards parked in containers at an abandoned gravel pit for a later pickup, but the police managed to discover their placement, and following a continued surveillance of the area arrested 3 men of Swedish nationality that appeared at the scene a few days later to pick up the cars.^[4] All in all 15 persons of a variety of nationalities and ethnicities, but mainly tied to the Swedish crime scene, were sentenced to prison for a total of 110 years. Only 4 million of the 62 million Danish kroner has been recovered to date.^[5]

Finland

1906 Helsinki bank robbery

France

Georgia

Germany

Red Army Faction
Andreas Baader
Gladbeck hostage crisis after a DM 300.000 bank-robbery by Dieter Degowski and Hans-Jürgen Rösner on August 16, 1988

India

Chelembra bank robbery, 2007, 80 kilograms of gold and 2,500,000 rupees, a total value of 80 million Indian Rupees.

Iraq

Central Bank of Iraq, March 18, 2003 - Considered the largest bank robbery in history.^[6]^[7] Hours after the start of the Iraq War, Saddam Hussein orders his sons Qusay and Uday to steal nearly US$1 billion cash from the bank.^[8]^{[Note 1]}
Dar Es Salaam Bank in Baghdad—About US$300 million is stolen on July 12, 2007 by the bank's security guards, but mostly recovered later.^[9]
Al-Rafidain in Baghdad, July 28, 2009 - One of Iraq's biggest-ever heists. Thieves made off with at least US$3.8 million in a pre-dawn raid on a branch of the state-owned bank in the shopping district of Karrada that left 8 police guards dead.^[10]
Al-Rafidain Bank, al-Mishkhab, 20 miles south of Najaf-About US$5.5 million is stolen.^[11]

Republic of Ireland

Robbers

Robberies

Bank of Ireland robbery

Italy

Valerio Viccei (convicted of Knightsbridge Security Deposit robbery)

Japan

300 million yen robbery, 1968.
540 million yen robbery incident in Fukutoku Bank Kobe branch, August 1994.^[12]
600 million yen robbery incident in Tachikawa, Tokyo, May 2011。^[13]

Lebanon

The British Bank of the Middle East in January 1976 in Beirut £25 million the equivalent of £100 million today. This bank robbery was executed by the PLO.

Malta

HSBC, 2007, 1 million Euros

Netherlands

Robberies

The Museon Museum Jewel Heist
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol The biggest jewel and diamond heist in Dutch history at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, where 75 million euros worth of jewels and diamonds was stolen from a secured cargo area. The robbers threatened security employees with guns and drove away in a money transport truck.

Robbers

Hans Gruyters

Nigeria

Lawrence Anini

Philippines

Alvin Flores Gang
Kuratong Baleleng Gang

Pakistan

ABL Karachi,December 13, 2009, 301 Million Rs

KARACHI: In the biggest bank robbery in Pakistan’s history, foreign currency worth Rs301 million was looted from the Allied Bank Limited (ABL)’s head office on II Chundrigar Road here on Sunday morning. Earlier, the looted amount was projected as being over Rs500 million.

Poland

Wołów bank robbery - the largest.
Kredyt Bank in Warsaw, March 3, 2001 - The bandits have stolen 100 thousand złoty's and shooting three cashiers and a security guard. Three criminals were sentenced to life imprisonment.

Norway

NOKAS robbery

Romania

Ioanid Gang

Russia

Grigory Kotovsky

Slovenia

On the night of October 31 2005 robbers entered the safety deposit boxes of SKB Bank (Societe Generale) in Ljubljana through the main door and deactivated the alarm system.^[14]^[15] Disarmed the security guard and opened more than 400 safety deposit boxes. They took at least 32.000.000,00 EUR in gold, precious stones and cash. In March 2012 two robbers were arrested. One of them was a security guard at the bank.^[16] The Court process against two robbers started^[17] in November 2013. At least one robber is still free.

Serbia

South Africa

Sweden

Robberies

The Norrmalmstorg Robbery
Västberga helicopter robbery, 2009, helicopter robbery of a cash depot in southern Stockholm

Robbers

John Ausonius – The Laser Man killer and convicted bank robber.

United Kingdom

Robbers

Robberies

Croydon Airport, 1935, members of the Sabini gang stole £12 million (at today's value) worth of gold bullion.
Heathrow Airport, 1948, Jack Spot's attempted heist of £500,000 (£15million at 2013 value) of gold bullion and valuables foiled through the intervention of the Flying Squad.
Eastcastle Street, 1952, Billy Hill's postal van robbery, netted £250,000.
Great Train Robbery, 1963, Buster Edwards, Charlie Wilson, Bruce Reynolds, Ronnie Biggs etc. robbed £2.6million.
Linwood bank robbery, 1969, two policemen killed.
Baker Street robbery, 1971, London, politically sensitive material taken from safe deposit boxes.
Bank of America robbery, 1975, Mayfair, London. £8 million stolen; £500,000 recovered.^[18]
Security Express, 1983, Curtain Road, Shoreditch, the Knight brothers and friends took £6m.
Brink's-MAT robbery, 1983, Heathrow Airport, England, £26 million gold bullion.
Knightsbridge Security Deposit robbery, 1987, £40 million. Gang leader Valerio Viccei caught when he returned to the country.
Loughton incinerator thefts, 1988–92, more than £600,000 stolen from the Bank of England's incinerator plant in Loughton over a four-year period.
City of London financial messenger mugged for £292m in government bonds, 1990. All but two recovered.^[19]
Graff Jewellers 1, 2003, £23m in jewellery taken from this Mayfair store.
Northern Bank robbery, 2004, Belfast, Northern Ireland, £26 million.
Securitas depot robbery, 2006, Kent, South East England, £53,116,760.
Graff Jewellers 2, 2009, Another £40m in jewellery taken.

United States

Robbers

Clyde Barrow, of Bonnie and Clyde
Naomi Betts
Black Liberation Army
James J. Bulger
Butch Cassidy, leader of the Hole in the Wall Gang
William Daddano Sr.
Emmett Dalton, principal of the Dalton Gang, 1890s
Bennie Dickson
Stella Mae Dickson
The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord
John Dillinger
Bill Doolin, 1890s
Earl Durand
Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd
Geezer bandit
Granddad Bandit
Patty Hearst
J.L. Hunter
James-Younger Gang, 1866–1881
Frank James, one of the two James Brothers
Jesse James, the other member of the James Brothers pair
Philip N. Johnson, $18.8 million of Loomis-Fargo's Jacksonville. FL Office.
Alvin Karpis
Tom Ketchum
Harry Longabaugh, known as "The Sundance Kid"
Candice Rose Martinez, "The Cell Phone Bandit"
Emil Matasareanu & Larry Eugene Phillips, Jr., North Hollywood shootout
Mad Hatter (bank robber), 2006–2007
May 19th Communist Organization
McCanles gang, 1861
Midwest Bank Robbers, 1990s
Vernon Miller*Bugs Moran
Frank Nash
George "Baby Face" Nelson
Albert Frederick Nussbaum
Joseph "Specs" O'Keefe
Reno Gang
Kenneth "Speedy" Raulerson
Stanley Mark Rifkin, $10.2 million in 1978, the largest in U.S. history at the time^[20]
Leslie Ibsen Rogge robbed a total of $2,000,000
Scott "Hollywood" Scurlock
Mutulu Shakur
Luke Elliott Sommer
Henry Starr
Willie "The Actor" Sutton
Symbionese Liberation Army
The Order (group)
Stephen Trantel aka "The Long Island Bank Robber", New York commodities broker who robbed 10 banks from July through November 2003, after losing his six-figure job. He netted just over $60,000 from the 10 bank robberies, was unarmed, and no one was injured during the commission of the crimes. He was featured on 48 Hours ("Stolen Dreams", 2008), Who the (Bleep) Did I Marry? ("Keeping Up Appearances" (2010)), and the 2011 American Greed debut ("Case File: Bank Robbing Broker");^[21] he is also the subject of an upcoming book
Trenchcoat Robbers^[22] – 1997 $4.46M cash
United Freedom Front
Bobby Randell Wilcoxson
John Wojtowicz
Adam Worth

Robberies (chronological)

United States Trust Company theft, 1934
Bank of the Manhattan Company theft, 1935, same gang as the United States Trust Company theft one month earlier, $1.462 million in U.S. Government securities (largest to that date)
Great Brink's Robbery, 1950, $2.78 million in cash, cheques and securities (largest value robbery to that date)
United California Bank robbery, 1972, safe deposit boxes looted of approximately $30 million in cash and valuables (largest value in world to that date)
Lufthansa heist, 1978, $5 million in cash (largest cash to that date) and $875,000 in jewels
Security Pacific Bank, Norco, California, 1980, deadly shootout between local law enforcement and five bank robbers
Brink's robbery, 1981, deadly shootout between local law enforcement and 10+ bank robbers populated with members of two revolutionary organizations
Sentry Armored Car Company, 1982, 11 million in cash.^[23] (Was the basis for the 2013 film Empire State)
White Eagle, 1983, $7.2 million in cash
1986 FBI Miami shootout, 1986, deadly shootout between FBI and two bank robbers
North Hollywood shootout, 1997, deadly shootout between local law enforcement and two bank robbers
1997 Loomis Fargo Robbery in Florida by Philip N. Johnson, March 1997, $18.8 million in cash
Dunbar Armored robbery, September 1997, $18.9 million in cash (the current U.S. cash robbery record)
1997 Loomis Fargo Robbery in North Carolina, October 1997, $17.3 million in cash
1998 Bank of America robbery, $1.6 million cash
2013 $45-million ATM cyber looting, $45 million cash^[24]

Uruguay

Tupamaros

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