Hollywood goodfella: Mystery Bank Heist Is Flashback to Berlin’s Murky Underworld

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Mystery Bank Heist Is Flashback to Berlin's Murky Underworld Feb 1st 2013, 08:19 A pedestrian walks past a locked branch of Berliner Volksbank following a robbery of the bank in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf area of Berlin. By Joseph de Weck, bloomberg A hidden tunnel, a fake Dutch passport, and strewn contents of smashed up safe-deposit boxes are among the clues confounding police in Berlin trying to solve a bank heist that recalls the German capital's past as a hotbed of crime and espionage. Police in the city, the scene of the infamous Sass brothers' bank raid in 1929 and a robbery at a Commerzbank AG branch in 1995, said a group of criminals toiled in secret for months from an adjacent underground garage. They dug a 45-meter (147.6 feet) tunnel before breaking into the vault at a Berliner Volksbank eG outlet in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf area last month. The bank's insurance arm is offering a maximum 25,000 euros ($33,710) for information leading to the recovery of the loot. read rest Here on bloomberg Media files: af11 A pedestrian walks past a locked branch of Berliner Volksbank following a robbery of the bank in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf area of Berlin.

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