#6 British Bank of the Middle East
20th January, 1976- Beirut, Lebanon: £25 million
In the 1970s there was a terrorist group called PLO which was led by Yasser Arafat. His aim was to carve out a homeland for the Palestinian people.
Back then they were at war, and everyone knows that wars cost money.
Lebanon was in the midst of a civil war, and in all that chaos, a group associated with PLO broke into a dozen banks, the largest of them was the British Bank of the Middle East.
The group waked out with a £25 million worth of gold, jewels, stocks and currency, valued at much more than $100 million in today’s money.
