Somebodys having a merry xmas.

[Tool Man]

On the news this morning that the bank I use in Belfast was hit today for a whopping £30 Million.......
Not sure what the $ conversion is, about $50,000,000 or thereabouts....

Will be a merry christmas in his house I bet.

http://www.u.tv/newsroom/indepth.asp?pt=n&id=54516

[yoda313]

On the news this morning that the bank I use in Belfast was hit today for a whopping £30 Million.......
Not sure what the $ conversion is, about $50,000,000 or thereabouts....

Will be a merry christmas in his house I bet.

Hello,

Probably not - running from the law doesn't make for pleasant dinner conversation on the 25th

Kevin

[Goober57]

On the news this morning that the bank I use in Belfast was hit today for a whopping £30 Million.......
Not sure what the $ conversion is, about $50,000,000 or thereabouts....

Will be a merry christmas in his house I bet.

Hello,

Probably not - running from the law doesn't make for pleasant dinner conversation on the 25th

Kevin

But spending the money on the 26th does. :P

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[jimmalenko]

That bank is owned by an Australian Bank

..Luckily it isn't my Bank

[Hardcoreruss]

The papers this morning said it was £40m which equates to $76,869,675.72

[bugster]

The papers this morning said it was £40m which equates to $76,869,675.72

The Daily Mail said £27m.

I think no-one has yet got an accurate figure.

Anyway, it makes it the biggest Bank Robbery in history!

[jimmalenko]

Inside job was the rumour over here - apparently they knew security codes or something AFAIK.

[Hardcoreruss]

The paper said they kidnapped the bank managers families and made them helpby threatening to harm their loved ones, bastards.

[BJ_M]

The papers this morning said it was £40m which equates to $76,869,675.72

The Daily Mail said £27m.

I think no-one has yet got an accurate figure.

Anyway, it makes it the biggest Bank Robbery in history!

not even close -- the largest is still somewhat still going on ..... and relates to a complicated fraud scheme and far east groups - including the famous triangle regions and the CIA (this is not a made up story - but a lot of the facts are sealed as it is an ongoing investigation and coverup)

http://www.uk-fraud.info/alerts/treasury.html
http://www.dandelionbooks.net/archives/uncensored_news_24.html



though related to the above - the "stroud" case is a different thing , butprob. the most bizzare (you can google a lot of info on this one)

An Oklahoma court has entered a default judgment against a Vancouver-area Internet promoter in a bizarre story of alleged shams, bogus cheques, alien contact and royal connections.

The court ordered Garry Stroud to pay $2-million (U.S.) in connection with a civil fraud case filed in 2001 by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC claims Mr. Stroud fleeced about $1-million in total from at least 2,200 investors worldwide by hawking bogus investments in different "prime bank" trading programs and so-called Morgenthau Gold Bond Certificates (not to be confused with the foot powder). A relief defendant in the case, Adele Louros of Montreal, is the named holder of several Internet payment accounts linked to Mr. Stroud, according to the SEC.

Now initially, Mr. Stroud was as unknown to the U.S. establishment as the Juno Awards, poutine or David Frum. Authorities took an interest in his alleged sucker schemes only after he introduced himself with a $9-million rubber cheque from a non-existent Swiss bank.

The cheque was tendered as part of a purported settlement in yet another case, this one involving an unemployed single father named Donald English. Mr. English is credited with orchestrating one of the greater alleged Ponzi schemes of our time -- absorbing $50-million from the masses in just a few weeks back in 2001. The pyramid collapsed when the payouts stopped and Mr.. English spent 40 days in an Oklahoma jail on a contempt charge for failing to fess up where the money went.

Then along came Mr. Stroud -- seemingly out of the blue -- who offered to pay $9-million to reimburse those cheated by Mr. English's venture. The infamous cheque bounced, but Mr. Stroud allegedly made off with the list of investors and started working the phones. That's when the British Columbia Securities Commission joined the fun, too.

The more investigators sniffed, the stranger the stink they found. Among other spectacular declarations, Mr. Stroud claimed an interest in Peruvian debt paper worth more than $1-trillion to the American government. Mr. Stroud reportedly told one of the SEC's lawyers that he got the bonds from a woman in shortwave radio contact with Hatton, a 9½-foot tall extraterrestrial who has been circling Earth for some time now. Guess it's tough to find parking for a spaceship.

Mr. Stroud did not return a phone call this week to his place in Aldergrove, B.C., a small farming community in the Fraser Valley Bible Belt. However, he once politely told a British reporter that it was Mr. English who operated a Ponzi scheme -- not he. Mr. Stroud then added, quite cheerfully, "You know, I'm the Queen's fifth cousin."

[BJ_M]

Mr. English - who stole $50 million , spent just over a month in jail and has disappeared , along with the money ..


Maybe he worked for Enron or something ...

[Tool Man]

Apparantly they could have got a lot more, but they ran out of room in the garbage truck they used

[bugster]

The papers this morning said it was £40m which equates to $76,869,675.72

The Daily Mail said £27m.

I think no-one has yet got an accurate figure.

Anyway, it makes it the biggest Bank Robbery in history!

not even close -- the largest is still somewhat still going on ..... and relates to a complicated fraud scheme and far east groups - including the famous triangle regions and the CIA (this is not a made up story - but a lot of the facts are sealed as it is an ongoing investigation and coverup)
.
.
.

I said Robbery, not fraud. Two very different things...

[BJ_M]

both are stealing - not a lot of diff .


just how you transport the funds ..

[mikesbytes]

That bank is owned by an Australian Bank

..Luckily it isn't my Bank

Which Aussie bank ?

[Tool Man]

National Australia.

[mikesbytes]

Lucky me, I have shares in the competitor

[energy80s]

Can I interest anyone in a few Northern Bank £20 notes??? In mint condition, just one previous owner.

[yoda313]

Can I interest anyone in a few Northern Bank £20 notes??? In mint condition, just one previous owner.

Hello,

Unmarked bills I hope???

Kevin

[bugster]

both are stealing - not a lot of diff .

I think you will find the Bank manager and his family involved in this particular 'robbery' would disagree with that statement.

From what I have read in the press and seen on TV news, fraud does not usually include kidnapping, guns and threats to kill your family.

The courts tend to consider them as somehwat different too.

[energy80s]

Can I interest anyone in a few Northern Bank £20 notes??? In mint condition, just one previous owner.

Hello,

Unmarked bills I hope???

Kevin

Well, they will be, as soon as I get these damned serial numbers rubbed off!

Just noticed at lunchtime how crowded Belfast is today ... although the Northern Bank seems decidedly empty!

Great story in last night's Belfast Telegraph about a local writer who had penned a screenplay about a robbery on the Northern Bank a few years ago. In his version a few disgruntled policemen decided to rob it and take off to the isle of Man with the proceeds. He showed it to the BBC who dismissed it as being too unbelievable!!

[Tool Man]

Just noticed at lunchtime how crowded Belfast is today ... although the Northern Bank seems decidedly empty!

Something like that tends to have that affect

It was suggested in the paper today that all Northern Bank notes should be withdrawn within 6 months. Giving people time to change them, but not enough time for the robbers.