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
Johann Kastenberger
Robberies
Bangladesh Bank - February 5, 2016. A group of international robbers allegedly with the aid of some influential officials of the Government of Bangladesh stole as much as $101 million foreign reserve of the central bank named ‘Bangladesh Bank' from its account at the US Federal Reserve Bank. According to the Bangladesh Bank spokesman, a group of robbers hacked the security system of the bank online in early February and stole credentials for payment transfers. The money was channeled to the Philippines where it was sold on the black market and funneled to ‘local casinos’. After the casino laundering, it was sent back to the same black market FX broker who promptly moved it to ‘overseas accounts’ within days. The robbers had sent 35 advices by using the SWIFT codes to the US Federal Bank but five of those were complied with until the theft was unearthed. The news of such a great bank robbery came to light after almost a month on February 29, 2016 by the Daily Inquirer in Philippines. The Government of Bangladesh, more specifically the Bangladesh Bank had been widely criticized for keeping this hidden for such a long time.
Sonali Bank - On January 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.
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.
ABM Amro Bank - March 2007. A man using a stolen Argentinian passport under the name of Carlos Hector Flomenbaum stole diamonds worth $28 million from safety deposit boxes in the vault of an ABM Amro bank in Brussels.
Brussels Airport diamond heist - February 18, 2013. Robbers escaped with US$50 million worth of diamonds (belonging, again, to the Antwerp World Diamond Centre) stolen from a Swiss-bound Fokker 100 at Brussels Airport.
Burglary
Banco Central burglary at Fortaleza in 2005 where 3,5 metric tons of paper money with an estimated value of R$ 164 million (USD $ 72.9 million as October 2005)
The Boyd Gang
Roger Caron
Ty Conn
Front de libération du Québec
Ray Lawinger - The Take Back Bandit
Kevin Pinto - the Exchange Bandit
Monica Proietti
Stopwatch Gang
Paddy Mitchell
Stephen Reid
Garrett Brock
Brian Raymond Stauffer
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
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.
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. 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.
Finland
1906 Helsinki bank robbery
The Bonnot gang (La Bande à Bonnot)
Jacques Mesrine
Albert Spaggiari
Toni Musulin
1907 Tiflis bank robbery
Jaba Ioseliani
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
Labh Singh allegedly masterminded what was at that time the largest bank robbery in Indian history, netting almost 60 million (58 million rupees-US$4.5 million) from Millar Ganj branch of Punjab National Bank, Ludhiana; a part of this stolen money belonged to the Reserve Bank of India, India's central bank. It was documented as “Biggest Bank Robbery” under “Curiosities and wonders” in Limca Book of Records. The loot enabled the Khalistan Commando Force to buy sophisticated weapons and AK-47 rifles. Sikh militants often used bank robberies to finance their campaign against the Indian government.
The Chicago Sun-Times reported that "12 to 15 Sikhs dressed as policemen and armed with submachine guns and rifles escaped with nearly $4.5 million in the biggest bank robbery in Indian history." "No one was injured." A Police spokesman described it as "a neat and clean operation".
Khalistan Commando Force members who allegedly participated in the robbery included Harjinder Singh Jinda, Mathra Singh, Paramjit Singh Panjwar, Satnam Singh Bawa, Gurnam Singh Bundala, Sukhdev Singh Sukha, Daljit Singh Bittu, Gursharan Singh Gamma and Pritpal Singh.
October 28, 2014 Indian robbers tunneled through 125 feet of earth and concrete to break into a nationalised bank’s strong room and stole cash and valuables worth crores of rupees in Haryana’s Gohana township.
Valerio Viccei (convicted of Knightsbridge Security Deposit robbery)
300 million yen robbery, 1968.
540 million yen robbery incident in Fukutoku Bank Kobe branch, August 1994.
600 million yen robbery incident in Tachikawa, Tokyo, May 2011.
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.
HSBC, 2007, 1 million euros.
Netherlands
Robberies
Museon Jewel Heist 2002.
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
Lawrence Anini
NOKAS robbery
ABL Karachi, December 13, 2009, 311 million rupees was looted from the Allied Bank Limited (ABL)’s head office.
Poland
Wołów bank robbery - the largest bank robbery in Polish history.
Republic of Ireland
Robbers
Martin Cahill
Gerry Hutch
Kenneth Littlejohn
Robberies
Bank of Ireland robbery
Ioanid Gang
Grigory Kotovsky
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. Robbers disarmed the security guard and opened more than 400 safety deposit boxes. They took at least 32,000,000 euros in gold, precious stones and cash.
In March 2012 two robbers were arrested. One of them was a security guard at the bank. The court process against two robbers started in November 2013. At least one robber is still free.
Željko Ražnatović
Pink Panthers
YACS crime group
Andre Stander
Robberies
The Norrmalmstorg Robbery
Västberga helicopter robbery, 2009, helicopter robbery of a cash depot in southern Stockholm
Robbers
Clark Olofsson
Jackie Arklöv
Jan-Erik Olsson
John Ausonius – The Laser Man killer and convicted bank robber.
Lars-Inge Svartenbrandt
"Military League" - group of brothers who performed 10 robberies in the early 1990's. Fictionalized by the book "The Father" written by Anton Svensson.
Robbers
neil hetzel
Lee Murray
Freddie Foreman
Frankie Fraser
James Crosbie
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 (£15 million 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. Stole £2.6 million.
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.
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. Neil Hetzel fled with £400,000 in used notes, was targeted by armed police and later served 13 years for armed robbery
City of London, 1990; financial messenger mugged for £292m in government bonds. All but two recovered.
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.
Edward J. Adams
Clarence Anglin
John Anglin
Aryan Republican Army
John Ashley
Earl Edwin Austin
Harvey Bailey
Arthur Barker
Albert Bates
Clyde Barrow, of Bonnie and Clyde
Eddie Bentz
Earl Best
Naomi Betts
George Birdwell
Black Liberation Army
Stanley Ray Bond
JACS
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
Ben Smith
Charles W. Bullard
Sirrea Davies
Edward Bunker
Nathan Landrum
Fred Burke
James Burke (gangster)
Donald Richard Bussmeyer
Tommy Carroll
Butch Cassidy, leader of the Hole in the Wall Gang
Gerald Chapman
Jaden Roberds
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
Thomas Doherty
Jeffrey Neal Drake
Frederick Grant Dunn
Earl Durand
Egan's Rats
Aussie Elliott
Gilbert James Everett
The Flathead gang
Fleagle Gang
Rufus Franklin
John Franzese
Ralph Fults
Pavle Stanimirovic
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
Kenny Holmes
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
William Matix & Michael Platt, 1986 FBI Miami 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
Steven C. 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
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
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
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
Geronimo bank robbery, 1984, resulted in the deaths of three bank employees and one customer
1986 FBI Miami shootout, deadly shootout between FBI and two bank robbers
North Hollywood shootout, 1997, deadly shootout between local law enforcement and two bank robbers
Bank of the Manhattan Company theft, January 1935, $1.462 million ($25.4 million today), carried out by repeat offender gang (largest value U.S. robbery to that date)
Great Brink's Robbery, 1950, $2.775 million ($27.6 million today) in cash, cheques and securities (largest value U.S. robbery to that date)
Plymouth Mail robbery, 1962, $1.5 million ($12 million today) in cash
Pierre Hotel Robbery, 1972, $3 million ($17 million today) in cash and valuables
United California Bank robbery, 1972, $30 million ($172 million today) in cash and valuables (the current U.S. value record)
Lufthansa heist, 1978, $5.875 million ($21.6 million today) in cash and jewels (largest U.S. cash robbery ($5 million) to that date)
Sentry Armored Car Company, 1982, $11 million ($27.3 million today) in cash (largest cash robbery to that date) (see Empire State)
White Eagle, 1983, $7 million ($17 million today) in cash
1997 Loomis Fargo Robbery in Florida, March 1997, $18.8 million ($28.0 million today) in cash (largest U.S. cash robbery to that date)
Dunbar Armored robbery, 1997, $18.9 million ($28.2 million today) in cash (the current U.S. cash robbery record)
1997 Loomis Fargo Robbery in North Carolina, 1997, $17.3 million ($25.8 million today) in cash
1998 Bank of America robbery, 1998, $1.6 million ($2.4 million today)
Tupamaros
