The Curse of Brink’s-Mat — When Stolen Gold Becomes a Criminal System
A robbery can be completed in hours. Converting its proceeds into usable power can reshape an entire criminal landscape.
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Wensley Clarkson’s The Curse of Brink’s-Mat: Twenty-Five Years of Murder and Mayhem: The Inside Story of the Twentieth Century’s Most Lucrative Armed Robbery investigates the long aftermath of the 1983 theft of £28 million in gold bullion from a warehouse near Heathrow Airport.
Clarkson traces the robbery from the south London underworld into a much wider network of handlers, financiers…
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