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Thieves Net $300 Million US from Baghdad Bank

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sandgk

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That's a lot of Dollars and the most since 2003 in one robbery in Iraq.

Thieves steal nearly $300 million from Baghdad bank
Thu Jul 12, 10:43 AM ET


Thieves have stolen nearly $300 million from a bank in Baghdad, police and a bank official said Thursday, in what is probably one of the biggest thefts in Iraq since the 2003 war to topple Saddam Hussein.
Police said the thieves were three guards who worked at the private Dar Es Salaam bank in Baghdad's Karrada district.
They said that when bank employees arrived for work on Wednesday they found the front door open and the money gone. The guards, who normally slept at the bank, had also disappeared, they said.
An official at the bank said about $300 million in U.S. dollars had been stolen, as well as 220 million Iraqi dinars ($176,000). He declined to give further details.
Police said the Interior Ministry and the Finance Ministry had set up a committee to investigate the theft.
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A classic case of "who's watching the watchers." They were guards AND they slept IN the bank......I'm not sure, given how easy it would be, if anyone could resist 3 million under those circumstances.
 
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RugbyBuck;880648; said:
Revised estimate is around $300-500K. Still a decent haul. I had to think the $300M in cash figure was crap. How would four guys transport $300M in bills?
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that's only 300 of these.... not too hard to carry these out. :roll1:

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