23M Raid On Bank...

Oriel

Just wondering what you all thought about that raid on the Northern in Belfast?
Largest bank raid in the UK apparently.
So who do you think is behind it then?

S.

Pet

Those filthy Prods!!

steveland?

serious amount of money... jaysis. apparently they're all new bills too, all 50s and 20s

did you hear about the guy who the other day stole 1mill from some bank he worked in and gave it to some guy who carried it around town amongst all the christmas shoppers...

opr

Its all sounds very like a bad film i saw a while back in the cinema. Think clooney was in it , anyone remember the name ?

Since it was all new bills this means its very hard to launder they think the majority of the money is already winging its way to the far east.

Wonder in years to come will we get an ocean's 11 type story out of it

Had to laugh at this comment from Chief Constable Sam Kinkaid " This was not a lucky crime - this was a well organised crime "
With people like this trying to catch them looks like they are laughing all the way OUT of the bank

steveland?

opr wrote:

Its all sounds very like a bad film i saw a while back in the cinema. Think clooney was in it , anyone remember the name ?

opr wrote:

Wonder in years to come will we get an ocean's 11 type story out of it

maybe oceans 11?

Orizio

Pet wrote:

Those filthy Prods!!

Neither the UDA or the IRA are competent enough to steal a bag of chips from there local chippie,so there isn't a hope in hell this was the paras or the prods.

Probably some gang linked to the IRA(as the IRA loves collecting drug money while kids in the republic and north shoot up)...

BTW,the film was probably bandits.

opr

SteveD wrote:

maybe oceans 11?

Thanks for making me go searching Turns out clooney wasn't in it after all.

"Bandits" - Plot outline....Becoming known as the "Sleepover Bandits", the two kidnap bank managers the night before their robbery, spend the night with their families, and then all go to the bank in the morning to get the dough.

Sound familiar ??

Getting back on topic forgot to answer who i think it was. IMO paramilitaries were behind it.

impr0v

Kudos to their organisational abilities, and to the fact that no one was killed or injured, though that obviously takes no account of the trauma that those taken hostage went through.

I thought it was unusual that the police would come out and say 'we have no clue who is behind it', and 'they left no trace of forensic evidence'. Obviously a lame attempt to get those involved relaxed enough to get sloppy at this stage, or to hide some forensic evidence they did find.

daveirl

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impr0v wrote:

Kudos to their organisational abilities,

Fair enough comment, I was going to post the very same thing.

impr0v wrote:

and to the fact that no one was killed or injured though that obviously takes no account of the trauma that those taken hostage went through.

I have to say, being held at gunpoint is one of the most traumatic experiences you could ever go through. A big electrical retailer I used to work for was held up during the January sales, and I was taken at gunpoint around all the tills, not nice I can tell you. One of my colleagues was held at knife point too :eek:

For weeks after I was living in fear of anyone I saw with a scarf up around their face.

As for who was behind it, I'd say it was one of the splinter republican groups.

gerire

In unrelated news; The IRA retirement fund, held in the GPO Dublin obviously, received an anonymous donation today of €32.8m .... Co-incidental?

FX Meister

Didn't they say only a third of it can be traced? It's still going to be hard to launder that much money, especially as it's Northern Sterling and not UK Sterling notes.

steveland?

daveirl wrote:

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Well... that's very clever isn't it

Fudger

Heard in the news that the Bank wasn't insured for Bank Robbery ???? Also where are they gonna launder northern ireland currency ?? Stupid Nordies the lot of them............

impr0v

They stated that a form of 'self-insurance' will cover it. In other words the Austrailian parent company will come up with the funds.

EKRIUQ

I'd say its got to be an inside job, nobody from the outside would be able to gather enough information to be able to pull off such a heist.

FX Meister

A traffic warden saw them loading the van, though it looked suss and called the cops, who proceeded to do.....nothing.

steveland?

Yeh it was an inside job alright. That million that was taken originally was taken by a staff member

pickarooney

opr wrote:

Its all sounds very like a bad film i saw a while back in the cinema. Think clooney was in it , anyone remember the name ?

Could've been Welcome to Collingwood (if it wasn't actually Bandits)

][cEMAN**

I think they said about 20-30 people were involved? If 1/3 of the £22mil was N.irish bank notes, then evenly split that would be about £250k-£350k each, while the rest could be moved offshore.

Somehow I don't think that amount would be too difficult so shift. Just would need to be laundered soundly, or kept for about 2-3 years and bled out over that time.

Fudger wrote:

Also where are they gonna launder northern ireland currency ?? Stupid Nordies the lot of them............

In northern ireland most likely.

Generalisations like that (coupled with the fact that you didn't take 10 seconds to think on that simple divisional sum I put up) show you to be an idiot. Please don't procreate. The human race has enough of your kind.

opr

Talk about recalling all bank notes to stop the money going into circulation.