Most people are generally fascinated with heists.

Movies like Ocean's 11 and The Sting glamorized, thes calculated criminal feats, and audiences around the world enjoy watching fictional characters escaping with huge piles of cash and jewelry.

But sometimes these elaborate crimes occur outside of the world of fiction.

Today we're looking at the five greatest heist of all time Antwerp Diamond heist.

The End Toward Diamond District is one of the most heavily secured places in the world, with billions of dollars of diamonds changing hands there every year.

And it was there in 2003 that one gang of thieves pulled off one of the largest diamond heist in history.

Even though most of the gang known as the School of Turin has since been arrested, the diamonds have never been retrieved.

The robbery was led by Leonardo no tar Bartolo, a small time diamond dealer, tenant of the Diamond Center and a thief responsible for many minor jewel robberies.

Although police believe he was the robbery's mastermind, he claimed that he was contacted by an unidentified diamond dealer who recruited him for the crime.

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Bartolo said he was paid to take pictures of the vaults complex security system.

From those features.

The dealer constructed a full sized replica of the vault nor Tar Ball.

Tollo states that the dealer set him up with a small gang of Italian jewel thieves, each with specific skills for the robbery.

The police are not convinced of the truth of this anonymous diamond dealer.

However, no proof has been found to support this claim.

The thieves got through the 10 layers of security previously thought to be Impenetrable.

They bypassed cameras, the combo dial, the key block magnetic sensors, the lock's still gate light sensors, heat and motion sensors and keypad disarming sensors.

They used aluminum to trick the magnetic field and stripped plastic off the wires of the sensor circuits.

Then they loaded up bags of diamonds and other jewels.

It took two hours to get it all out of the building, but thanks tow one gang member.

Things eventually fell apart.

That man was pay TRO to Ivano, known as Speedy and one of Notre Bartolo Sze, lifelong friends.

Speedy couldn't handle the pressure.

After unloading the loot into this car, he had to pull over because he was having a panic attack.

Remarkably, not a single alarm went off.

As security guards arrived on Monday morning, they realized that the thick steel door to the vault was open.

In 100 of the 189 safe deposit boxes had been raided, with some with loot still on the floor.

The world's Onley specialized diamond police, Patrick Pais and Again de Breaker phoned the vault alarm company.

What is the status of the alarm?

They asked.

Fully functional, came the reply.

However, authorities eventually found no tar Bartolo by watching security footage.

He was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Brazilian bank robbers In 2017 Brazil's police arrested 16 men tunnelling towards a vault containing one billion Riaz, or $318 million and who were on the verge of pulling off the largest ever bank robbery in the country's history.

Authorities swooped just before the alleged gang was able to use its impressively equipped tunnel to enter the safe about Benko Dough Brazil branch in the country's financial capital.

It would have been the world's biggest heist, said police chief Fabio Panera Lopez on Globo TV.

Police said work on the tunnel began four months ago, starting from a house several blocks from the bank.

It had sophisticated supports, fans and lights.

The police believe Al CEO Seo Gomez Noriega was the ringleader of the operation.

He is a 35 year old man implicated in an attempted robbery of a security van in Paraguay.

The court ruled the group be held in pretrial detention, though it's hard to believe the group dug the tunnel by hand.

They loaded the soil into sacks and carried it outside through an underground storm water drain.

To enter the tunnel, gang members descended a two meter ladder from one of the rooms in the rented house.

The tunnel was about 1.5 meters high and was reinforced with iron beams and wood and even wired with lights.

The walls were lined with plastic garbage bags to reduce the dust.

The tunnel was reportedly filled with food, water, special clothing and digging tools.

Police were probing whether the gang had the assistance of a KN engineer when building the tunnel.

Because the construction was so impressive.

The tunnel renewed memories of a tunnel robbery 12 years ago when thieves made off with about $70 million for the previous highest.

Diggers worked in shifts from 8 p.m. Until 4 a.m. Taking a break on weekends.

Three gang members involved in that attempt were involved in two separate prison escapes using tunnels equipped with ventilation and lighting.

$500 million Cyber Heist Starting in 2009 cyber criminals from Eastern Europe infiltrated and at least 100 banks in 30 countries, raking in as much as $1 billion in fraudulent transfers and hijacked A TM machines over a two year period.

They did so with a mysterious Trojan called Spy I.

The attacker struck in Russian banks first, as well as those in Germany, China and the United States.

They got away with it initially, but soon authorities tracked them down and they were brought to justice.

Alexander and Ravage Pannone, the inventor of Spy I, who went by Alias Bribe Odin on and Harder Man Online pleaded guilty to a court of conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud in January 2014 after reaching a deal with prosecutors.

Prosecutor Stephen Grim for said Spy I, a preeminent piece of malware developed from 2010 to 2012 was used to infect more than 50 million computers, causing nearly $1 billion in damage to individuals and financial institutions around the world.

A second man, Hamza bin Dallas, a 27 year old Algerian known online as B X one, was sentenced to 15 years.

Prosecutor said he sold versions of Spy I Online and used the malware to still financial information.

Spy I was a type of Trojan virus that secretly implanted itself on victim's computers to steal sensitive information, including bank account credentials, credit card information, passwords and pins.

Once it took over a computer, it allowed hackers to trick victims into surrendering personal information, including data grabbing and fake bank account pages.

The information was relayed to a command and control centre to be used to access victim accounts.

Panin conspired with others to advertise by eye in online cyber crime forms and sold versions of the software prices ranging from $510,000.

FBI Special agent Mark Ray testified Panin was the architect of a pernicious malware known as Spy I that infected computers worldwide.

He commercialized the wholesale theft of financial and personal information, and now he's being held to account for his actions, U.

S attorney Sally Yates stressed in a news release.

Many police agencies don't have the skills to effectively tracked down and investigate cybercrime.

Tracking down cybercriminals requires a very different skill set from traditional policing, which limits the ability of law enforcement to go after cyber criminals.

It also takes resource is and trained personnel, which are in many cases in very short supply, says Martin Roeselaere, director of threat research at Trend Micro.

Francis Heist of the Century French gangster jock was Cassandra was in court in 2018 for a crime committed over 40 years ago.

Police noticed the fact the Marcy A Mafioso was the likely mastermind of the heist of the century after he was discovered to be the anonymous author of a book about the crime.

On July 16th 1976 a group of criminals robbed a branch of Society General, France's third largest bank in the southern city of knees A.

Using the tunnels underneath the city, the gang was able to partially destroyed the floor beneath the bank's basement vault and gain access to the banknotes, jewelry, gold bars and safety deposit boxes.

located within, according to the society general's own account of the incident.

The brazen criminal spent the weekend taking their time, going through the vaults, contents, even taking the time and luxury to picnic.

Using the depositors silverware, he used a pen name.

But investigators quickly concluded that the rider was Jack was Cassandra Aqui, Mafia figure in Marcel, where he is now standing trial.

He had assumed he was safe because the crime was too old to be prosecuted.

But Cassandra is being charged with laundering the millions from the heist, a crime from which France has no statute of limitations.

Police found the manuscript on Cassandra's computer, and his Children later confessed that their father had often bragged about the robbery.

He eventually admitted to orchestrating the intrinsically planned job that involved at least six people in 30 thinks of a settling to fuel the welding torches used to cut into saves and safety deposit boxes.

An inquiry found he had also bought furs worth tens of thousands of euros and that once provided the financial guarantee with seven bars of gold.

He has always said it was a novel and I don't think a court can convict someone on the basis of a novel, a lawyer from Cassandra, Frederick More Honore, said Monday.

Because Sandri and his family members are facing a series of questions on his business dealings with prosecutors, also alleging Social Security fraud and a real estate scam in Corsica.

It's not his first time in court, having been arrested in the early 19 seventies when police broke up the French connection.

Heroin trade centered in Marcel $1 Million Pharmacy, Iraq Back in 2016 the owner of a super Value pharmacy in Fort Worth, Texas, rang in the new year with a trash business missing $1 million worth of pharmaceuticals.

The general manager, Jane La Bombe, said the pharmacy, at 7 20 North Industrial Boulevard was broken into in the early hours of December 30 1st the burglars took highly marketable drugs with a street value of upto $1 million she said.

Surveillance footage shows men clad in black crawling and trying to break into a safe spilled pill.

Bottles and cough syrup can be seen in the footage and what appears to be a safe with the side cut out.

An employee named Richard Kirby said the robber tied him and three employees up with Zip ties.

He said he didn't want to hurt anybody, and we sort of took him at his word.

But he's still waving a gun.

Scary part.

I never looked down the barrel of a gun before the robber filled the bag with narcotics and left through the back door.

Herbie knows through other pharmacists, the robberies are escalating.

Yellow Hydro code in Soma and Zannex are the Big Three that most of them are after her be set.

Urbi wonders how long it will be before one of those crooks decides the drugs are worth pulling the trigger.

The video ended up becoming extremely popular, with over four million views and counting.