That Gang Who Turned a Landscaping Business into $70m
That Bloke Who: The Tunnel Rats — Brazil’s $70 Million Heist
Forget crowbars, getaway cars and alarms blaring in the middle of the night. These blokes had a rather different approach to robbing a bank. They brought shovels, wheelbarrows and a landscaping business.
In August 2005, a gang of Brazilian criminals pulled off one of the most audacious bank heists in history. Operating behind the cover of a seemingly ordinary synthetic-grass business, they spent months secretly digging an approximately 80-metre tunnel beneath the streets of Fortaleza, Brazil.
Their destination? The vault of the…
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