We found out yesterday that "Bank Heists" are still with us. Somehow $22 million in gold and bank notes disappeared from storage near Pearson Airport. That to me makes it a "Heist" and not just a "robbery".
I think the key to a heist is that police have no idea how the thieves pulled it off.
That happened to one of the world's largest gold coins - a 221-pound behemoth from Canada called the Big Maple Leaf. The 21-inch wide, inch-thick coin had been housed in Berlin's Bode Museum, but it was stolen on March 27, 2017. The face value of the coin, which has the head of Queen Elizabeth II on one side and a maple leaf on the other, is 1 million Canadian dollars, or about $750,000, but by gold content alone, it's worth as much as $4.5 million.
We all know about the Great Train Robbery - in 1963 - they got away with what would be worth $61 million US today. They did get caught. It is one of the 10 heists in this article HERE.
The Guinness Book of Records lists a 2007 bank robbery at the Dar es Salaam Investment Bank in Baghdad, Iraq as the biggest bank heist that got away. And that one was $282 million.
The Toronto Sun article HERE on the heist goes through Canada's history of heists. Remember the 3,000 tons of maple syrup worth $18.7 million stolen in Quebec?
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