This day in History: At least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery on this day in 2006, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or €78 million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.
At least 36 arrests were made during an extensive police investigation.
Other Securitas depots had been previously targeted in the mid-1990s, when ram-raiders in Liverpool and Manchester had stolen more than £2 million. The Northern Bank robbery in Belfast was previously the biggest cash theft in UK history, when £26.5 million was stolen in 2004. This record was broken by the Tonbridge heist. The largest cash heist in global history took place in March 2003, when approximately US$1 billion was stolen from the Central Bank of Iraq, shortly after the United States began the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
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