List of bank robbers and robberies

Robbers

• Brenden Abbott
• Christopher "Badness" Binse
• Darcy Dugan
• Keith Faure
• Frank Gardiner–Ben Hall gang
• Edward "Ned" Kelly
• Victor Peirce, member of the Pettingill family.
• Gregory David Roberts
• Ronald Ryan
• Andrew George Scott (Captain Moonlite)
• Squizzy Taylor

Robberies

• Bank of Australia robbery, 1828, £14,000 in promissory notes and coins.
• 1984 Sydney bank robbery and hostage crisis

• Johann Kastenberger

• Bangladesh Bank robbery

• Edwin Alonzo Boyd
• Ty Conn
• Roger Caron
• Ivan Grose
• John Hamilton
• Ken Leishman
• Paddy Mitchell
• Kevin Pinto
• Monica Proietti
• Stephen Reid
• Norman Ryan
• Jeffrey Shuman
• Garrett Brock Trapnell
• Front de libération du Québec

The first bank robbery in Denmark occurred August 18, 1913 in the bank Sparekassen for København og Omegn at Østerbro in Copenhagen. It was carried out by two men, Danish salesman Lindorff Larsen and a German machinist Güttig, armed with revolvers; the two got away with 9000 Danish kroner. Güttig was arrested August 30 and Lindorff Larsen committed suicide after having fled the police.[1]

• 1906 Helsinki bank robbery

Robbers

• The Bonnot gang (La Bande à Bonnot)
• Jacques Mesrine
• Albert Spaggiari[2][3]

Robberies

• Bank of France, 1986, Saint-Nazaire, $11.4 million.[4]
• Bank of France, 1992, Toulon, 160 million francs (£30 million).[5]
• Caisse d'Espargne bank, 1980, Paris, $11.5 million.[6]
• Société Générale S.A, 1976[2][3]

• 1907 Tiflis bank robbery
• Jaba Ioseliani

• Red Army Faction
• Andreas Baader
• Gladbeck hostage crisis after a DM 300,000 bank robbery by Dieter Degowski and Hans-Jürgen Rösner on August 16, 1988

Robbers

• Attila Ambrus

In 1987, Labh Singh (Sukhdev Singh Sukha) allegedly masterminded[7] what was at that time the largest bank robbery in Indian history, netting almost 60 million (58 million rupees-US$4.5 million) from Millar Ganj branch of Punjab National Bank, Ludhiana;[7] a part of this stolen money belonged to the Reserve Bank of India, India's central bank.[8][9] It was documented as “Biggest Bank Robbery” under “Curiosities and wonders” in Limca Book of Records.[10] The loot enabled the Khalistan Commando Force to buy sophisticated weapons[11] and AK-47 rifles.[12] Sikh militants often used bank robberies to finance their campaign against the Indian government.[8]

The Chicago Sun-Times reported that "12 to 15 Sikhs dressed as policemen and armed with submachine guns and rifles escaped with nearly $4.5 million in the biggest bank robbery in Indian history." "No one was injured." A Police spokesman described it as "a neat and clean operation".[9]

Khalistan Commando Force members who allegedly participated in the robbery included Harjinder Singh Jinda, Mathra Singh,[13] Paramjit Singh Panjwar,[14] Satnam Singh Bawa,[15] Gurnam Singh Bundala,[16] Sukhdev Singh Sukha, Daljit Singh Bittu,[17][18][19] Gursharan Singh Gamma[17][18] and Pritpal Singh.[20]

• Ronnie Leibowitz

Robbers

• Sadamichi Hirasawa (controversial conviction in bank robbery that killed 12 people by poisoning)

Robberies

• 540 million yen robbery incident in Fukutoku Bank Kobe branch, August 1994.[21]
• 600 million yen robbery incident in Tachikawa, Tokyo, May 2011.[22]

• The British Bank of the Middle East in January 1976 in Beirut, £25 million, the equivalent of £100 million today. This bank robbery was executed by the PLO.[23]

• HSBC, 2007, 1 million euros.[24]

Robbers

• Hans Gruyters

• Lawrence Anini

• NOKAS robbery - The biggest bank robbery in Norwegian history

• ABL Karachi, December 13, 2009, 311 million rupees was looted from the Allied Bank Limited (ABL)’s head office.

• Wołów bank robbery - the largest bank robbery in Polish history.

Robbers

• Martin Cahill
• Gerry Hutch
• Kenneth Littlejohn

Robberies

• Bank of Ireland robbery

• Ioanid Gang

• Grigory Kotovsky

On the night of October 31, 2005, robbers entered the safety deposit boxes of SKB Bank (Societe Generale) in Ljubljana through the main door and deactivated the alarm system.[25][26] Robbers disarmed the security guard and opened more than 400 safety deposit boxes. They took at least €32 million euros in gold, precious stones and cash.

In March 2012 two robbers were arrested. One of them was a security guard at the bank.[27] The court process against two robbers started[28] in November 2013. At least one robber is still free.

• Željko Ražnatović
• Pink Panthers

Robbers

• Clark Olofsson
• Jackie Arklöv
• Jan-Erik Olsson
• John Ausonius – The Laser Man killer and convicted bank robber.

Robberies

• The Norrmalmstorg Robbery

Robbers

• Ronald Biggs
• Ronald Christopher "Buster" Edwards
• Brian Arthur Field
• Lee Murray
• Frankie Fraser
• Bruce Richard Reynolds
• Charles Frederick Wilson

Robberies

• Linwood bank robbery, 1969; two policemen killed.
• Bank of America robbery, 1975, Mayfair; London. £8 million stolen, £500,000 recovered.[29]
• Midland Bank Clearing Centre, 1995, Salford, Greater Manchester, £6.6 million.[30]
• Northern Bank robbery, 2004, Belfast, Northern Ireland; £26 million.

• Tupamaros

• Reserve bank of Zimbabwe devaluation of currencies. Masterminded by the Junta government of R.G. Mugabe and implemented by Patric Chinamasa and John P Mangudya, the RBZ systematically stole millions of US Dollars from people's accounts and replaced the money with what they imposed to be bond coins and notes from 2014. This led to long queues and loss of value of money in accounts (2016-2018) until Mthuli Ncube the finance minister of the military coupe government formally spilt the beans to the public that all their US Dollar bank balances are now local valueless Zim dollar currencies (zwl), in late 2018.