30 million stolen in Belfast bank raid

:blush:

Where did you hear that?:spangled:

every single newspaper i've read today has said something similar.

Was just the way he said, heard! Like he had some inside info!

Some more info -

£12m in new Northern Bank £100 and £20 notes were taken
£5m of assorted used NI banknotes were taken
£1.15m of new Northern Bank £100 and £50 notes were among the stolen cash
Four people were held hostage at a house in Poleglass on the outskirts of west Belfast
Two people were held in County Down
A woman was held blindfolded for more than 24 hours
45 detectives are working on the case

Mr Detective

It was only actually 22Mil in total! Still not bad I suppose!

ONLY???? :shock:

Police today confirmed that over £22m was taken when an armed gang pulled off one of the world's biggest ever bank robberies.
During a press conference this afternoon, detectives said more than 10 masked raiders, some dressed as police officers, were involved in the audacious theft from Belfast's Northern Bank on Monday.

They also confirmed that a burned out car found late last night in woodland in the south of the province belonged to one of six people held hostage during the raid. Police said the owner had been held blindfolded and gagged for 23 hours before being dropped off in woodland near the main road linking Ballynahinch and Castlewellan, Co Down.

Det Supt Andy Sproule told reporters that 45 detectives were working "flat out" in an attempt to track the thieves and were trawling through hours of CCTV footage. But he said the raiders were "forensically aware" and admitted police would not trace the culprits without public help.

"It is not going to be easy to catch them," he said. "This was a carefully planned operation by professional criminals who have done their homework." The hostages, who included bank workers, had the impression the thieves were aware of bank processes and security systems, he said.

Det Supt Sproule said the raid began around 10pm on Sunday when three masked men entered the family home of a bank employee in Dunmurry, near south Belfast. A father, mother, two brothers and a girlfriend were at home and taken hostage. While two of the men stayed at the property, the bank employee was driven to the home of a superior in Loughinisland, Co Down. That house had already been reached by raiders, dressed as police officers, who gained entry after saying a relative had been killed in a road accident.

The following day the bank employees went to work and were told to behave as though everything was normal, Det Supt Sproule said. Around 6pm on Monday one of them left the bank carrying a bag containing around £1m in notes which he delivered to a waiting man.

He then returned to the bank and shortly after, around 7pm and again around 8pm, a white box van, with the registration plate RCZ 6632, pulled up at the part of the bank from where money is distributed, and began loading crates full of cash, Det Supt Sproule said.

In excess of £22m was taken in mostly new notes of various denominations printed by a number of Northern Ireland banks. Once the thieves had possession of the money, they released the hostages.

Earlier, it emerged the Australian owners of the Northern Bank will have to bear the cost of the robbery. The National Australia Bank said it had no external insurance policy to offset the losses.

hahaha so the only losers are the greedy banks, sweeeeeeeeet!

It wasn't me honest :angel2:

Easy on the Mick jokes, though with £22m I doubt they care what you call them.