BIG DIG PAYS OFF!
Brazen Brazilians' big dig pays $90m
By Rio De Janeiro
August 10, 2005
Thieves dug a tunnel into a bank in north-eastern Brazil and stole 156 million reals ($A90 million) — the biggest bank robbery in the nation's history.
Police said that the gang rented a house near the bank and dug an 80-metre tunnel from the house to directly below the bank's vault.
"It's something you see in the movies," investigator Francisco Queiroga said.
"They dug a tunnel … that goes underneath two (city) blocks. They've been digging for three months."
The thieves broke into a branch of the Central Bank in Fortaleza in the north-eastern state of Ceara.
Because of the weekend closure the theft was not discovered until Monday.
"We've never heard of so much money being stolen from a bank in Brazil," Mr Queiroga said.
He and the bank staff at first estimated the tunnel to be 200-metres long but federal police who have taken over the case said later that it was 80-metres long.
It had been reinforced with wood and plastic and had been fitted out with electric lights.
Neighbours said that between six and 10 men had been seen at the house, which was rented under the name of a company that made artificial turf.
Police said that the thieves came up beneath the bank vault and then broke through the concrete floor to gain entry to the bank. Motion sensors inside the vault did not respond and failed to sound the alarm.
The amount stolen easily exceeds the haul taken in Britain's Great Train Robbery.
A member of that gang, Ronald Biggs, fled to Brazil and lived there for many years.
He and 11 other gang members robbed a Glasgow-to-London mail train in 1963 and made off with £2.6 million — a sum that would be worth about £30 million ($A70 million) by today's value.
- Reuters
挖穿地道 巴西央銀20億遭竊
侯秀琴/綜合報導
巴西中央銀行福塔雷薩市分行的金庫日前遭竊賊以挖地道方式侵入，盜走多達1億5600萬巴西幣（約6500萬美元，折合台幣約20億6千萬元，亦有報導指被竊金額為6800萬美元）。若按重量論，這些錢是重達13.5噸的紙鈔，而整個作案過程中，居然沒有觸發警報器。這是巴西史上金額最大的銀行竊盜案，也是全球史上金額第二大的銀行竊案。
福塔雷薩市位在巴西東北部，距聖保羅市約2500公里。該分行位於市中心，其金庫面積達500平方公尺，牆壁是混凝土和鋼板結構，厚達2公尺。5日下午6時下班後，金庫就被關閉，直到8日上午工作人員上班時打開金庫，才發現被盜，宛如電影情節般驚人和戲劇化。
據警方調查，竊賊挖了1條長約200公尺（一說80公尺）、深4公尺的地道抵達金庫下方，然後鑿開水泥地面進入金庫。警方已在銀行附近1棟房屋內找到坑道的起點。地道內牆壁上用木板和塑膠片支撐，並裝有電燈。警方在地道內還找到了電鋸，鑿子、焊接器等器具。辦案人員估計，這個集團約由6至10人組成，而地道花了約3個月時間挖成。
警方說，竊賊在地道起點的房屋開設了1家園藝公司，方便他們運出從地道挖出來的泥土，而不啟人疑竇。
巴西央行總行8日下午發表公報說，福塔雷薩分行共有5個保存50雷亞爾（巴西貨幣，約21美元）面額的保險櫃遭竊。這些錢是該分行從各地銀行回收來檢查的，檢查後損壞嚴重的現鈔將被挑出來銷毀，其餘的再發還給各銀行。公報說，聯邦警察正針對此案進行調查，但公報中並未透露被盜的具體金額。
在此之前，巴西最大的銀行竊盜案發生在1999年，當時位在聖保羅市中心的1家銀行被犯罪集團盜走了3700萬巴西幣。
這起竊盜案的金額略遜於1987年發生在倫敦市中心騎士橋的保險櫃中心竊盜案，那起竊案的金額高達7200萬美元，為全球史上金額最高的現金竊盜案。
VIA CHINATIMES
By Rio De Janeiro
August 10, 2005
Thieves dug a tunnel into a bank in north-eastern Brazil and stole 156 million reals ($A90 million) — the biggest bank robbery in the nation's history.
Police said that the gang rented a house near the bank and dug an 80-metre tunnel from the house to directly below the bank's vault.
"It's something you see in the movies," investigator Francisco Queiroga said.
"They dug a tunnel … that goes underneath two (city) blocks. They've been digging for three months."
The thieves broke into a branch of the Central Bank in Fortaleza in the north-eastern state of Ceara.
Because of the weekend closure the theft was not discovered until Monday.
"We've never heard of so much money being stolen from a bank in Brazil," Mr Queiroga said.
He and the bank staff at first estimated the tunnel to be 200-metres long but federal police who have taken over the case said later that it was 80-metres long.
It had been reinforced with wood and plastic and had been fitted out with electric lights.
Neighbours said that between six and 10 men had been seen at the house, which was rented under the name of a company that made artificial turf.
Police said that the thieves came up beneath the bank vault and then broke through the concrete floor to gain entry to the bank. Motion sensors inside the vault did not respond and failed to sound the alarm.
The amount stolen easily exceeds the haul taken in Britain's Great Train Robbery.
A member of that gang, Ronald Biggs, fled to Brazil and lived there for many years.
He and 11 other gang members robbed a Glasgow-to-London mail train in 1963 and made off with £2.6 million — a sum that would be worth about £30 million ($A70 million) by today's value.
- Reuters
挖穿地道 巴西央銀20億遭竊
侯秀琴/綜合報導
巴西中央銀行福塔雷薩市分行的金庫日前遭竊賊以挖地道方式侵入，盜走多達1億5600萬巴西幣（約6500萬美元，折合台幣約20億6千萬元，亦有報導指被竊金額為6800萬美元）。若按重量論，這些錢是重達13.5噸的紙鈔，而整個作案過程中，居然沒有觸發警報器。這是巴西史上金額最大的銀行竊盜案，也是全球史上金額第二大的銀行竊案。
福塔雷薩市位在巴西東北部，距聖保羅市約2500公里。該分行位於市中心，其金庫面積達500平方公尺，牆壁是混凝土和鋼板結構，厚達2公尺。5日下午6時下班後，金庫就被關閉，直到8日上午工作人員上班時打開金庫，才發現被盜，宛如電影情節般驚人和戲劇化。
據警方調查，竊賊挖了1條長約200公尺（一說80公尺）、深4公尺的地道抵達金庫下方，然後鑿開水泥地面進入金庫。警方已在銀行附近1棟房屋內找到坑道的起點。地道內牆壁上用木板和塑膠片支撐，並裝有電燈。警方在地道內還找到了電鋸，鑿子、焊接器等器具。辦案人員估計，這個集團約由6至10人組成，而地道花了約3個月時間挖成。
警方說，竊賊在地道起點的房屋開設了1家園藝公司，方便他們運出從地道挖出來的泥土，而不啟人疑竇。
巴西央行總行8日下午發表公報說，福塔雷薩分行共有5個保存50雷亞爾（巴西貨幣，約21美元）面額的保險櫃遭竊。這些錢是該分行從各地銀行回收來檢查的，檢查後損壞嚴重的現鈔將被挑出來銷毀，其餘的再發還給各銀行。公報說，聯邦警察正針對此案進行調查，但公報中並未透露被盜的具體金額。
在此之前，巴西最大的銀行竊盜案發生在1999年，當時位在聖保羅市中心的1家銀行被犯罪集團盜走了3700萬巴西幣。
這起竊盜案的金額略遜於1987年發生在倫敦市中心騎士橋的保險櫃中心竊盜案，那起竊案的金額高達7200萬美元，為全球史上金額最高的現金竊盜案。
VIA CHINATIMES
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