British Expatriate Network

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If you work for a living you may sometimes think of how to get rich quick. Have you in your idle moments every thought of becoming a blagger? Do you dream of a hollywood style heist where no-one gets hurt and you meet the beautiful girlfriend/boyfriend and jump on the plane with your bag of money. .never to be seen again?

Well a 'bit of business' went down in the UK this week and Bank of England is short $50m. However, it seems that rather that following the well worn poressional criminal route (skip the country/lay low/act normal) they adopted a different approach.

The next day a woman appeared at her local building society to open an account with about 6k in cash. Clerks suspected nothing until they saw the money was still
sealed in the wrappers of the depot from where it was stolen.

So it seems like however brilliantly planned the crime - you can alway count on someone in the crew being a complete wombat. Looks like it's all going 'pear-shaped'.

(Though for the benefit of RobS I full appreciate that no-one has been charged and that this is all hearsay at this point grin )

Yes, I've always enjoyed movies like "The Italian Job", "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" and "Ocean's 11".

It looked like a pretty thorough operation up to a point but clearly the aftermath was not very well thought out.

Not saying I've given it too much thought but if I was running a caper like that, I'd insist that the money sit somewhere for quite some time and everyone go back to their "normal" lives, with a tiny amount of the money.

Once the heat died down, it would probably have been easier to start laundering the money, especially if you can remove it from the country and convert it abroad.

Then again, if you are greedy enough to steal that much money, you probably don't have what it takes to be in it for the long term.

lol

Wonderful stuff.

To melt that amount of money away would take several years! It is so much harder to just "appear" somewhere with large amounts of money, even the classic "no questions asked" place now ask some questions!

You'd get whacked . I read Harry Hills 'GOODFELLAS' book - and they all got very anxious with this 'sit-tight' approach. Jimmy Conway -the gang leader - started knocking them all off to shut them up. So sitting an a big cash pile belonging to ruthless criminals invites its own problems.

Possibly but that's why you choose your "friends" carefully. Anyway, that was a story about the Mafia who are renowned for being ruthless. Probably safer making a deal with the devil, I suspect.

Be interesting to see the MO on this gang when they are all caught. Seem more like slightly talented amateurs at present, probably with an insider at the facility.