N. Ireland bank robbery reveals paramilitaries' involvement in crime
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Northern Ireland may have enjoyed an uneasy peace in recent years, but as illustrated by a massive bank robbery in December, the fear is that paramilitary gangs have simply turned their guns from politics to profit.
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Detective Andrew Sproule of the Police Service of Northern Ireland speaks to the media outside the Northern Bank headquarters in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Thursday, Dec. 23, 2004.
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The Irish Republican Army on Tuesday formally denied responsibility for the &#36;50 million robbery of a Belfast bank, a crime that has thrown Northern Ireland's peace process into disarray.
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Police on both sides of the Irish border are looking for a gang though to be behind a spate of car thefts
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Police hunting the raiders who stole an estimated Â£27million from a Belfast bank are convinced they had inside help - and possibly backing from one of Northern Ireland&#39;s terrorist groups.
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The outlawed Irish Republican Army denied involvement in a bank heist in downtown Belfast that netted 22 million pounds (31 million euros, 42 million dollars), the Press Association news agency quoted a source close to the movement as saying.
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Police in the North have confirmed that a total of Â£22m was taken in the raid on the Northern Bank in Belfast on Monday. However, the gang may find it extremely difficult to dispose of the proceeds of the
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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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Detectives in Northern Ireland are investigating a bank theft that may be in excess of 20 million pounds ($38.5 million), the police said.
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BANK robbers in Northern Ireland have made off with as much as Â£30m ($A76m) from an Australian-owned bank in Belfast. The robbers gained access to a branch of the Northern Bank on Wellington Street in central
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The security forces have found a cache of ammunition suspected of belonging to Northern Ireland's main Roman Catholic paramilitary group, the Irish Republican Army (IRA), a security source said.
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A panel of international experts said Thursday that a &#36;50 million Belfast bank heist that has shaken Northern Ireland's peace process to its foundations was sanctioned by senior members of the IRA-linked party Sinn Fein.
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The IRA was responsible for the multi-million pound bank robbery in Belfast, NI's chief constable says.
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BELFAST, Dec. 24 -- Police staged raids Friday in two Irish Republican Army strongholds of Belfast in search of the $42.5 million stolen this week from a bank's underground vault.
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A fresh appeal has been made by police investigating the 26.5m Northern Bank robbery in Belfast.
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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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Northern Ireland's fragile peace process has been damaged by a massive bank heist last month in Belfast attributed to the Catholic paramilitary Irish Republican Army, the minister for the province said.