#5 MASTER PLANNED ROBBERIES IN THE WORLD.
#5 SOCIETE GENERALE BANK ROBBERY, FRANCE
Albert Spaggiari (14 December 1932 – 8 June 1989) was the mastermind of this robbery. He did his first robbery to just impress her girlfriend because of which he was send to jail. When he came out, he joined army and after that he opened his own photo studio. He was living like a common man but he wanted to do something big, he wanted to live like rich person. So in 1976, he targeted Societe Generale Bank where all the 400 lockers were made underground.
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| Societe Generale Bank of 1976. |
He planned to rob it, after examining the bank, he understood that he will need to make a tunnel directly opening in the banks locker room. For checking the alarm system, he used a very unique technique, he took a locker in the same bank and he kept a very strong alarm in it and the time set was of midnight. When the next day arose, no one even knew what happened inside. He understood that there is no alarm system established. Remember that this incident took place in 1976 when cctv camera's were not introduced. Then he hired some professional gang members and started the process of digging a tunnel which passed through sewer system and opens in the locker room.
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He was such an intelligent man that he gave strict orders to his members to be away from alcohols and coffee and should take 10 hours of sleep so that no big mistake happens. The digging process took 2 months and then in the 2 days festival holidays, they robbed the bank and the amount they robbed was about 60 million francs. They wrote on the walls of the bank "No Weapons, No Hatred, No Violence".
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| Albert Spaggiari writing on walls of the bank. |
After then, on the tip of an ex-girlfriend of his gang member, police started investigating and after third degree torture, all the gang members were caught and the mastermind Albert Spaggiari was also caught but when the case went in court, he gave an envelope to the judge and when everyone were distracted, he jumped from the court's window on the street where a preplanned biker took him and disappeared. Then he was never found alive. On 8 June 1989, someone threw his dead body in front of the house where his mother lived. Police is still not able to find the money he robbed. This was the biggest bank robbery of France.
#4 FRANK WILLIAM ABAGNALE
Frank William Abagnale (born April 27, 1948) was the one who ruined America's fraud protection system whose inspiration was taken and the most famous Hollywood film "Catch Me If You Can" was made. Only when he was 15 years old, he cheat his father. Frank's father gave him his credit card so that he can use it in his first job. Frank first bought auto parts with that credit card because of which it was recorded and then he returned that product and got cash. When at the end of the month came, then his father had to pay $3,400.
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Frank has such a persuasion technique that almost everyone used to get tricked with his words. At time when he was 21, he had 8 duplicate identities with all different names in different banks from which not a single bank account used to have money. When he did not had money, he used to give cheque of these bank accounts and he never got caught because all identity cards and social security numbers were duplicate. He also robbed people sometime becoming a doctor and sometime becoming engineer.
When he wanted to explore the world for free, he also made a duplicate pilot license but at last he was caught and send to jail for 12 years but with his persuasion technique and his intelligence, he was removed from jail within just 5 years. Today he is living a honest life and work in the respectful institution. Do you know in which institution does the worlds intelligent robbery is giving education? The answer is that he works at a very high post in Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and teaches fraud prevention.
#3 DAN COOPER
On 24 November 1971, a person boards a plane going from Portland, Oregon to Washington with 2 ticket. He said his name is Dan Cooper. When the plane took off, he called an air hostess. When air hostess came, he slightly opened the lid of his bag. There was a bomb inside that bag. He told her to sit besides him. Remember, he had taken 2 tickets.
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| Dan Cooper. |
When the air hostess sat besides him, he in very smart way delivered his instructions to not only the pilot and crew members but also to the Seattle air traffic controller. He demanded $200,000 in ransom (equivalent to $1,260,000 in 2019) for leaving all the passengers and crew members alive. Though this money is somewhat less than the Pink Panther present at number 1 but this is the most intelligent robbery and plane hijacking in the world as he executed the plan in such an intelligent way that he did not left his seat and even did not let the passengers knew that the hijacker is present inside the plane. He left the passengers when he got the money he demanded, 4 parachuts and 2 truck aeroplane oil to fill the empty tank of aeroplane. When the passengers left the plane, he said to fly the plane again at a low height.
Cooper then locked all the crew members in a cockpit. As the plane started to fly over Nevada region, the the pilot saw a warning symbol on the screen because the door of the plane was open. As all the crew members were locked, they could not go back to close the door so the plane was landed on the Nevada runway with the door open. When the plane was checked, the bag with money and 2 parachuts were missing and Cooper had already jumped from the plane and vanished. After the immediate response and finding all parts of Nevada, Cooper is still missing. Cooper and the money he took is still not found.
#2 GARDNER MUSEUM ART THEFT
On 18 March, 1990, in America's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, two policemen came and caught the two security guards by saying that they have robbed the museum. Both the security guards were ordered to sit outside the museum with handcuffs on their hand. They were rescued when they understood that the museum was really robbed and this robbery was done by the two policemen who caught them.
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They robbed many paintings and when the list was made, they got that the thieves had robbed paintings worth $500 million. The museum is offering a $10 million reward for information leading to
the art's recovery, the largest bounty ever offered by a private
institution but the truth is no one is able to find a single clue against it and the two robbers in the policemen dress.
#1 HARRY WINSTON ROBBERY
On 4 December 2008, in Harry Winston Jewellery Store, at the time when the shop was about to close, three beautiful girls and one handsome boy goes inside the shop to buy jewellery. Employees of that shop showed them jewellery as they did not wanted that their customer should get disappointed as no businessmen wants. At that time, one of the girl removes a gun from her purse and another girl removes a hand grenade. At that time the employees understands that all the three girls are really men and the store is being robbed.
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| Men dressed as women. |
This gang was not a simple one but one of the most famous gang of Serbia named Pink Panther who robbed almost $12,00,00,000 (Rs 9,15,03,00,000 ) which was the biggest robbery ever. In just 15 minutes, they robbed many expensive diamonds. Serbian Pink Panther Gang is not yet found and they have robbed many such stores and shops and police is still not able to find them.
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