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tisdag, januari 04, 2011

Thieves tunnel into Argentinian bank on New Year's Eve

 

Thieves dug a 100ft-long (30 metres) tunnel from a neighbouring building into an Argentinian bank and emptied the contents of up to 140 safety deposit boxes, officials said yesterday.
Authorities said three thieves entered a Banco Provincia branch in the Buenos Aires district of Belgrano on New Year's Eve when it was closed and spent the weekend opening and emptying between 130 and 140 of the branch's 1,408 boxes. The robbery wasn't discovered until the bank reopened on Monday.
Bank executives didn't say how much the thieves got away with because clients are not obliged to tell authorities what was in their safety deposit boxes.

The thieves rented a building next to the bank in June and spent months digging the tunnel, which emerged in an area where safety deposit boxes are located, prosecutor Martin Niklison said. The tunnel had lights, ventilation and reinforcement. /NZ Herald

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