Thieves Get About $65 Million From Brazil Bank

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Thieves Get About $65M From Brazil Bank


Tuesday August 9, 2005 1:46 AM

SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Thieves tunneled nearly 300 feet to a Central Bank vault in northeastern Brazil and stole about $65 million, police said Monday, in what has been described as the biggest such robbery ever in Brazil.

The money was stolen from the Central Bank's vault in the city of Fortaleza, about 1,550 miles northeast of Sao Paulo.

The thieves built a 13-foot deep, 262-foot-long tunnel from a house near the bank to the vault, federal police said in a statement.

The elaborate tunnel had electric lights and walls reinforced with wood panels and lined with plastic sheeting, police said.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5198769,00.html

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1. Wow, that sounds almost like a Donald Westlake novel...

...except that Dortmunder & gang would have been caught.

[KeepItReal]

2. Does Halliburton have an office in Fortaleza??

That's some impressive construction work...

[benburch]

3. But... But...

Then they cannot run to Brazil to avoid extradition!

[goforit]

4. Now DUrs, is Bush really in Crawford or in Brazil?

[ConcernedCanuk]

5. Aha - da revenge of Sundance and Butch Cassidy!

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dat'll teach dem Brazillions!! :evilgrin:

[Blue_Tires]

6. good security...

wow...i mean, no one in or near the bank noticed anything? something like that takes a whole lot of men using some pretty noisy tools

[1932]

7. It would have been easier to go to Iraq and get a reconstruction contract.

They probably could have made twice as much digging a tunnel half as long without any risk of breaking the law.

[Voltaire99]

8. LOL. Nice one. ;-)