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A picture of the Central Bank of Brazil in Fortaleza. The Banco Central burglary at Fortaleza was the theft of about R$160 million from the vault of the Banco Central branch located in Fortaleza, in the state of Ceará, Brazil, on August 6, 2005. It is one of the world's largest heists.
Moises Teixeira da Silva is a convicted robber who escaped São Paulo, Brazil's Carandiru prison with about 100 others through a tunnel in 2001. He was serving a 25-year sentence at the time. Since his escape, Moisés is suspected of masterminding two major bank robberies in Brazil in 2005.
Federal Bank Heist (Portuguese: Assalto ao Banco Central) is a 2011 Brazilian thriller film directed and produced by Marcos Paulo Simões, starring Milhem Cortaz, Hermila Guedes, Eriberto Leão and Lima Duarte. It is based on the 2005 Banco Central burglary at Fortaleza. [1]
Flavio Frederico (“Urbânia”) is directing Brazilian bank robbery movie “São Paulo Heist” (“Assalto Na Paulista”) about a notorious crime that went down in 2010. Eriberto Leão ...
Dozens of gunmen armed with assault rifles invaded a city in southern Brazil overnight Tuesday and took control of the streets as they assaulted a local bank. Video broadcast on the Globo ...
Typical Americans. Um, the article is about Brazil. Who cares what the situation is in the USA. Troyac 09:45, 10 August 2005 (UTC) Then we better call it a roubo or furto. -- Plutor 16:53, 10 August 2005 (UTC) Not quite – in the United California Bank robbery the gang used explosives to blow a hole in the roof of the bank vault.
The film is based on a true story, the Bank Rio Heist of the Banco Río branch in the Buenos Aires town of Acassuso on January 13, 2006, which was held up by a gang of six robbers armed with replica weapons. [3] They took 23 hostages and took $15 million from 147 safes. [4]
The website's critics consensus reads: "Well cast and crisply directed, The Bank Job is a thoroughly entertaining British heist thriller." [ 20 ] Metacritic reports the film has a weighted average score of 69 out of 100 based on 32 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [ 21 ]