Belfast robbery launched with a lie
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BELFAST -- On an icy, black Sunday night, police officers brought terrible news to the rural idyll of Kevin McMullan's home: A relative had just been killed in a car crash, they said. It was a lie, and it launched one of the world's biggest bank robberies.
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It has emerged that police in Northern Ireland were told about men acting suspiciously outside the Northern Bank headquarters in Belfast city centre from which Â£22m was stolen on Monday.
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A gang held the families of two  Northern Ireland bank officials hostage for 24 hours before  stealing more than 20 million pounds ($39 million) in one of  Britain's biggest ever robberies, police said on Tuesday.
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The IRA denied yesterday that it had any involvement in this week&#39;s Â£22m armed robbery of a Belfast city centre bank. A senior republican source said: &quot;We are dismissing
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BELFAST - The Irish Republican Army insisted Thursday that it did not plan and carry out this week&#39;s $53-million bank heist in Belfast.
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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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Auction scam relieves victim of Â£5,500 A gang which set up a fake eBay car auction robbed the would-be buyer at gunpoint when he met to close the deal, The Daily Mirror reports.â¦
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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.
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CCTV footage is released by police investigating a Â£26m bank raid in Belfast, as they issue a fresh appeal.
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On an icy Sunday night, police brought terrible news to Kevin McMullan&#39;s home: A relative had died in a car crash, they said. It was a lie -- and it launched one of the world&#39;s biggest bank robberies.
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A gang of thieves is likely celebrating their dubious distinction today, after making off with a record $48 million Cdn. from a bank in Belfast.
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The Irish Republican Army (IRA) denied  on Thursday that it was behind a record 22 million pound ($43  million) bank heist in Belfast earlier this week.
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BELFAST  - Bank robbers in Northern Ireland have made off with as much as 30 million pounds (43.3 million euros, 58 million dollars) in what could be the province&#39;s biggest ever bank heist.
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BELFAST -- The gang that held two bankers&#39; families hostage as part of an audacious Belfast robbery posed as police officers and walked into their victims&#39; homes, neighbours said yesterday as more details emerged of one of the biggest cash thefts in
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As much as Â£20m may have been stolen in a raid at a bank's headquarters in Belfast, police say.
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POLICE in Northern Ireland were stoned by angry crowds yesterday when they raided Republican areas looking for the proceeds of the $55 million heist at the Australian-owned Northern Bank.
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The manager of the security depot raided in the largest cash robbery ever carried out in Britain yesterday told a court of his terror as he was kidnapped by men pretending to be police officers.