List of bank robbers and robberies

This is a list of bank robberies, bank robbers and gangs involved in bank robberies.

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Australia

Robbers

• Brenden Abbott
• Darcy Dugan
• Keith Faure
• Frank Gardiner–Ben Hall gang
• Edward "Ned" Kelly
• Gregory David Roberts
• Ronald Ryan
• Andrew George Scott (Captain Moonlite)
• Squizzy Taylor

Robberies

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

Austria

• Johann Kastenberger

Bangladesh

Robberies

• Sonali Bank - On Jan 26 2014, a Sonali Bank branch in Kishoreganj was robbed of 169 million Bangladeshi taka after two men tunneled their way into the vault from an abandoned room of a neighboring house.^[1][2]

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.^[3][4]

Brazil

• Banco Central burglary at Fortaleza – 2005, the largest bank robbery in Brazil and one of the largest in history (US$70.1 million)

Canada

• The Boyd Gang
• Roger Caron
• Ty Conn
• Front de libération du Québec
• Kevin Pinto - the Exchange Bandit
• Monica Proietti
• Stopwatch Gang
• Paddy Mitchell
• Stephen Reid
• Garrett Brock Trapnell

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

• Yip Kai Foon
• Cheung Tze-keung

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.^[5]

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.^[6] 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.^[7]

Finland

• 1906 Helsinki bank robbery

France

• The Bonnot gang (La Bande à Bonnot)
• Jacques Mesrine
• Albert Spaggiari
• Toni Musulin

Georgia

• 1907 Tiflis bank robbery
• Jaba Ioseliani

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.

• October 27, 2014 Indian Robbers tunnelled through 125 feet of earth and concrete to break into a nationalised bank’s strong room and loot cash and valuables worth crores of rupees in Haryana’s Gohana township. ^[8]

Iraq

• Central Bank of Iraq, March 18, 2003 - Considered the largest bank robbery in history.^[9] 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.^[10]
• 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.^[11]
• 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.^[12]
• Al-Rafidain Bank, al-Mishkhab, 20 miles south of Najaf-About US$5.5 million is stolen.^[13]
• In 2014 in Mosul, the Islamic State steals $425 million after capturing the town.^[14]

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.^[15]
• 600 million yen robbery incident in Tachikawa, Tokyo, May 2011。^[16]

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. ^[17]

Malta

• HSBC, 2007, 1 million Euros. ^[18]

Netherlands

Robberies

• Museon Jewel Heist 2002. ^[19]
• 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

Pakistan

• ABL Karachi, December 13, 2009, 301 Million Rs was looted from the Allied Bank Limited (ABL)’s head office.

Poland

• Wołów bank robbery - the largest bank robbery in Polish history.

Norway

• NOKAS robbery

Republic of Ireland

Robbers

• Martin Cahill
• Gerry Hutch
• Kenneth Littlejohn

Robberies

• Bank of Ireland 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.^[20][21] Robbers 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.^[22] The Court process against two robbers started^[23] in November 2013. At least one robber is still free.

Serbia

• Željko Ražnatović
• Pink Panthers

South Africa

• Andre Stander

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

• Lee Murray
• Freddie Foreman
• Frankie Fraser
• James Crosbie^[24][25]
• Roy Shaw

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.^[26]
• 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.^[27]
• 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, Tonbridge, England, £53,116,760.
• Graff Jewellers 2, 2009, Another £40m in jewellery taken.

United States

Robbers

• Edward J. Adams
• Clarence Anglin
• John Anglin
• Aryan Republican Army
• John Ashley
• Earl Edwin Austin
• Harvey Bailey
• Arthur Barker
• Ma Barker
• Albert Bates
• Clyde Barrow, of Bonnie and Clyde
• Eddie Bentz
• Earl Best
• Naomi Betts
• George Birdwell
• Black Liberation Army
• Stanley Ray Bond
• Fred William Bowerman
• Christopher John Boyce
• Ford Bradshaw
• Al Brady
• Robert Brady
• Michael William Brescia
• Everett Bridgewater
• Joseph Brodak
• Henry Newton Brown
• Harry Brunette
• James J. Bulger
• Charles W. Bullard
• Edward Bunker
• Fred Burke
• Donald Richard Bussmeyer
• Tommy Carroll
• Butch Cassidy, leader of the Hole in the Wall Gang
• Gerald Chapman
• John Paul Chase
• James Clark
• Jim Clark
• Russell Clark
• Archie Clement
• Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe
• Bernard Coy
• Joseph Paul Cretzer, formed the Cretzer-Kyle Gang
• Patrick Critton
• Pat Crowe
• James Cunniffe
• Anthony Curcio
• William Daddano Sr.
• Emmett Dalton, principal of the Dalton Gang, 1890s
• Ed Davis
• Lawrence DeVol
• Bennie and Stella Dickson
• The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord
• John Dillinger
• Bill Doolin, 1890s
• Frederick Grant Dunn
• Earl Durand
• Egan's Rats
• Aussie Elliott
• Gilbert James Everett
• The Flathead gang
• Fleagle Gang
• Rufus Franklin
• John Franzese
• Ralph Fults
• Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd
• Geezer bandit
• George Jackson Brigade
• Víctor Manuel Gerena
• Russell Gibson
• Fred Goetz
• Eddie Green
• Ralph Guarino
• Carl Gugasian
• Granddad Bandit
• John Hamilton
• Patty Hearst
• Clarence Hill
• Holden-Keating Gang
• Shon Hopwood
• Cora Hubbard
• J.L. Hunter
• Hunt-Gant Gang
• James-Younger Gang, 1866–1881
• Elmer H. Inman
• David Stanley Jacubanis
• Frank James, one of the two James Brothers
• Jesse James, the other member of the James Brothers pair
• Christopher Jeburk
• Charles E. Johnson
• Morris Johnson
• Philip N. Johnson, $18.8 million of Loomis-Fargo's Jacksonville. FL Office.
• W. D. Jones
• Anthony Michael Juliano
• Alvin Karpis
• Tom Ketchum
• Machine Gun Kelly
• John Allen Kendrick
• Israel Keyes
• Ben Kilpatrick
• Herman Lamm
• Elzy Lay
• George Leonidas Leslie
• Robert Van Lewing
• Loan Ranger Bandit
• Harvey Logan
• Harry Longabaugh, known as "The Sundance Kid"
• James C. Lucas
• David Mack
• Christopher Magee
• Charles Makley
• 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
• Ben Golden McCollum
• Henry Methvin
• Midwest Bank Robbers, 1990s
• Vernon Miller
• William Miller
• Bugs Moran
• Frank Nash
• Salvatore Naturale
• Jay Wesley Neill
• George "Baby Face" Nelson
• Newton Gang
• Earl Northern
• Albert Frederick Nussbaum
• Joseph "Specs" O'Keefe
• Sara Jane Olson
• The Order
• Burton Phillips
• Harry Pierpont
• Duane Earl Pope
• Katherine Ann Power
• Phineas Priesthood
• Gerhard Puff
• Reno Gang
• Kenneth "Speedy" Raulerson
• Stanley Mark Rifkin, $10.2 million in 1978, the largest in U.S. history at the time^[28]
• David "Chippy" Robinson
• Leslie Ibsen Rogge robbed a total of $2,000,000
• Verne Sankey
• Frank Sawyer
• Susan Edith Saxe
• John Paul Scott
• Scott "Hollywood" Scurlock
• Mutulu Shakur
• Ted Skeer
• Edward Smith
• Luke Elliott Sommer
• Henry Starr
• Steady B
• The Stopwatch Gang
• Willie "The Actor" Sutton
• Symbionese Liberation Army
• Robert Toye
• 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");^[29] he is also the subject of an upcoming book
• Trenchcoat Robbers^[30] – 1997 $4.46M cash
• Forrest Tucker
• Wilbur Underhill, Jr.
• United Freedom Front
• Homer Van Meter
• Clayton Waagner
• Donald Eugene Webb
• Wheaton Bandit
• McArthur Wheeler
• Whittemore Gang
• Bobby Randell Wilcoxson
• Johnny Madison Williams Jr.
• John Wojtowicz
• Adam Worth
• Jerry Lynn Young
• Cole Younger

Deadly US Robberies

• 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
• 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

Large Value US Robberies

• 1798 Bank of Pennsylvania heist, 1798, $162,821, called "America's first bank robbery"
• Anthony Curcio's 2008 Brinks robbery. Considered the most elaborately planned heist in history.^[31]
• Bank of the Manhattan Company theft, January 1935, $1.462 million, same gang as the United States Trust Company theft (largest value U.S. robbery to that date)
• Great Brink's Robbery, 1950, $2.78 million in cash, cheques and securities (largest value U.S. robbery to that date)
• United California Bank robbery, 1972, $30 million in cash and valuables (the current U.S. value record)
• Lufthansa heist, 1978, $5 million in cash (largest U.S. cash robbery to that date) and $875,000 in jewels
• Sentry Armored Car Company, 1982, $11 million in cash (largest cash robbery to that date)^{[32][33][34][35][36]} (Was the basis for the 2013 film Empire State)
• White Eagle, 1983, $7.2 million in cash
• 1997 Loomis Fargo Robbery in Florida, March 1997, $18.8 million in cash (largest U.S. cash robbery to that date)
• Dunbar Armored robbery, 1997, $18.9 million in cash (the current U.S. cash robbery record)
• 1997 Loomis Fargo Robbery in North Carolina, 1997, $17.3 million in cash
• 1998 Bank of America robbery, 1998, $1.6 million cash

Uruguay

• Tupamaros

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