Throughout history, robberies of all kinds have been recorded, some highlighted by the ingenuity of the thieves, who seem to have they took from a movie. One of them is the case of the robbery of BCRA Regional Treasury, in Rosario30 million pesos/dollars.
This event occurred in 1992 and was classified as “The Robbery of the Century”. What is striking about this case is that there was no type of threat involved and the bank was notified some time after he escaped.
What was the robbery of the Century of 1992 like?
This event occurred in 1992, at which time the then President of the Nation Carlos Saúl Menem decided replace Australs with Convertible Pesosremoving several zeros from the coin.
In this way, anyone who had a 500 thousand australes bill had to exchange it for one of 50 pesos. The same thing happened in the banks. They were to replace treasury notes.
On December 22 of that year, the Head of the Treasury of Rosario received a phone call from the supposed Central Bank which informed him that the next day 3 agents would visit the bank to withdraw 30 million dollars in 500 thousand austral banknotes to be recycled.
This is how the next day, the official received them at the airport in the town of Fisherton along with an armored truck. The thieves, posing as agents of the Central Bankthey loaded everything on the plane and returned to Buenos Aires with a treasury employee, whom they later misled with a lie.
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What happened to the criminals and the money
The gang of fraudsters was headed by Hector “Tito” Rimawho saw this gradual exchange as an opportunity that he took advantage of.
Although the coup had been a success, the band ended up falling due to the infidelity of a pai umbanda: One of the thieves told him about the maneuver and the pai, a police informant, told it to agents from a Lanús brigade.
“Tito” Rima, the ideologue, fell in 1993, but managed to be released a year later after paying bail of 400 thousand pesos with false guarantees. The guarantor of those documents was arrested and Rima was on the run again.
The money never appeared.
Source: Ambito
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