UK heist sets cash record

[Lakie]

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au...E29677,00.html
UK heist sets cash record

March 01, 2006

LONDON: Auditors say pound stg. 53million ($125million) was stolen in last week's heist at a security warehouse near London, making it the largest cash theft in Britain and one of the biggest in the world.

Warehouse owner Securitas Cash Management Ltd had confirmed the total after an audit, Kent police Assistant Chief Constable Adrian Leppard said.

A British judo champion has been questioned about the record armed robbery on the Securitas cash depot in Kent. Chris Bowles represented Britain at the 1980 Moscow Olympics and at the peak of his career was a European and British champion. He also taught at Tonbridge public school and is a senior coach at a Tonbridge judo club in Kent.

Detectives refused to confirm that Bowles was the man arrested on Saturday after a white Ford Transit van was found at a hotel with two plastic bags containing pound stg. 1.3million, weapons, balaclavas and body armour.

Police were also searching the home of Bowles's friend Lea Rusha - a kick-boxing expert from Southborough, near Tunbridge Wells.

Four men have been arrested during raids over the weekend and on Monday.

Police are also reported to have recovered a van and a forklift truck close to where 14 steel cages holding the banknotes was dumped. The forklift may have been used to move the cages.

Detectives now have seven vehicles they believe were used in the robbery but yesterday Constable Leppard said police were still searching for the white Renault lorry which was driven in to the depot early last Wednesday morning by the gang.

Constable Leppard said 10 addresses had been searched during raids and material was being examined by police.

The amount taken from the cash depot on February 23 eclipses the pound stg. 26million stolen by a gang from the Northern Bank - then owned by the National Australia Bank - in Belfast in December 2004.

Last year, thieves stole the equivalent of $95million from Brazil's Central Bank, and in 1987, the equivalent of $88million in cash, gold, gems and other valuables was taken from the Knightsbridge Safe Deposit Centre in London.

Both raids are dwarfed by the wartime theft of $US900 million in US bills and as much as $US100 worth of euros from the Iraq Central Bank in 2003.

[BOne]

this was just on the radio here in oklahoma ... wow i wish i knew those dudes
id ask for a loan lol

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Originally posted by BOne
this was just on the radio here in oklahoma ... wow i wish i knew those dudes
id ask for a loan lol

even though they have been caught

[Steve]

3 ppl were in court today.
police did pretty good this time. those 3 will squeel for sure

[Obscuras]

Ahh the Securitas van incident? I heard somewhere thats its actually 153 mil...it'd be a bit stupid if 9 random dustbin men were to deposit that much cash....


and my dad works for the company so he's gutted =P

[VooDoo-]

awww .. no props if they got caught lol

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Originally posted by Obscuras
Ahh the Securitas van incident? I heard somewhere thats its actually 153 mil...it'd be a bit stupid if 9 random dustbin men were to deposit that much cash....


and my dad works for the company so he's gutted =P

$125 million = £53 million

u prob mixed it up abit

in my opinion they stole too much, id be happy with 2 million, but they went for £53.. bit hard to hide that much cash, even with it divided

[Stephen]

why steal at all its stupid and with todays security its almost impossible tp get away with a large robbery

[BOne]

Originally posted by BB
even though they have been caught

yup it was on doug banks morning show 103.5 oklahoma citys only source for hip hop
and r and b ... they were gettin there clown all the way on about those dudes

[Hellfighter]

i heard something on the news they got some of them in jail now something like 11 people taken in? can't say i only over heard it on the news and gone to sleep at the time.

[DevilDog#1]

Originally posted by Killerbee ™
why steal at all its stupid and with todays security its almost impossible tp get away with a large robbery

I guess they were fan of "Firewall"