IRA denies any linkto $50m bank heist
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DUBLIN -- The Irish Republican Army formally denied responsibility yesterday for the $50 million robbery of a Belfast bank, a crime that has thrown Northern Ireland's peace process into disarray. The outlawed IRA, which last month issued a denial through a spokesman, issued its formal statement amid criticism that the first denial didn't come from a sufficiently authoritative source. "We ...
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A massive bank robbery in Northern Ireland last week might have been carried out by paramilitary group the IRA as a way of providing a "pension fund" for activists ahead of its dissolution.
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The leading Belfast Sinn FÃ©in member, Gerry Kelly, has refused to confirm or deny claims made last night by DUP leader Ian Paisley.
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Police missed a gang of robbers who stole Â£22m from a Belfast bank by a matter of minutes, it has emerged.
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A still-unpublished report into the raid of a Belfast bank firmly pins the Irish Republican Army to the record-setting theft, Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern told lawmakers Tuesday.
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Britain's central bank, the Bank of England, on Friday said it has frozen the assets of a suspect accused of plotting to kidnap and kill a British soldier, and those of four others accused of terrorism offences.
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Police have raided properties in two Irish Republican Army strongholds of Belfast in search of the Â£22 million ($42.5m) stolen this week from a bank&#39;s underground vault.
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The police blamed the Irish Republican Army (IRA) for a major bank robbery last month in Northern Ireland, triggering concerns about efforts to revive the peace process in the British province.
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Senior detectives in Northern Ireland are looking through hundreds of hours of closed-circuit television footage as part of their investigation into how thieves stole up to $50 million from a bank in Belfast earlier this week.
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A spectacular bank robbery in Belfast last month, in which thieves netted nearly $50 million, has cast a pall on Northern Ireland peace negotiations and thrown Catholic-Protestant political relations in ...
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The massive bank robbery in Northern Ireland may have been carried out by paramilitary group the Irish Republican Army (IRA) to provide a &quot;pension fund&quot; for activists ahead of its dissolution.
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A junior dealer detained over the biggest fraud in banking history is helping investigators, police said on Sunday, as his employer revealed that he had bet 50 billion euros ($73.3 billion) of its money on illicit trades.
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The Irish Government last night rejected calls for publication of the Nally report clearing gardai of allegations of withholding information from the then RUC about theft of a car on the eve of the Omagh bomb.
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PETER CAVE: It&#39;s perhaps the biggest and most audacious robbery in the UK since the Great Train Robbery in 1963, with more than 20 million pounds, or $50 million, missing after thieves emptied the vaults of a downtown bank owned by Australia&#39;s National
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Detectives suspect the Irish Republican Army (IRA) may have been behind last week&#39;s massive bank robbery in Northern Ireland, according to a newspaper report.
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Habib Bank in Pakistan denies that it is linked to the 2002 murder of US reporter Daniel Pearl in Karachi.
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POLICE in Northern Ireland have concluded that the IRA was almost certainly responsible for last weekâs Â£22m (â¬31m) robbery of Northern Bank in Belfast.