#1 Central Bank of Iraq
18th March 2003- Baghdad, Iraq: $920 million
And the number one place on the list of the greatest robberies in history is the Central Bank of Iraq heist.
The largest heist in history was as simple was it was effective.
Saddam Hussein treated Iraq as his own personal fiefdom, and the day before Coalition forces began bombing Iraq, he sent his son Qusay to make a withdrawal on his behalf with a handwritten note.
Qusay oversaw the withdrawal of boxes stuffed with $100 bills in a five-hour operation which netted the dictator about $1 billion in US dollars.
Approximately $650 million was later found by US troops hidden in the walls of one of his palace’s, though the remaining $350 million has never been recovered and is considered lost.
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