Baghdad thieves carried sacks of money out of the bank
Around $2.5 billion was stolen in a bank robbery in Iraq. Details of the crime are now coming to light. Much points to the country’s corrupt elite.
A branch of the Iraqi state bank Rafidain in Baghdad became the scene of a crime: It seems impossible to find the stolen billions.
Foto: Roy Gutman (Getty Images)
It happened in broad daylight. Not once, but several times. More precisely: for weeks. Armored vehicles drove up to a branch of the state-owned Rafidain Bank in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, and armed security guards loaded sacks of cash on them. It later emerged that it was the largest bank robbery in history. A crime that hardly anyone abroad knows about. Around $2.5 billion was stolen between September 2021 and August 2022. All indications point to an inside job.
2023-08-05 21:39:17
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