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TIL an elderly man gained the trust of a Belgian bank by bringing the workers chocolates. He was eventually given VIP access to the bank vault. In 2007, he stole $28 million worth of diamonds and vanished.
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TIL Belgian bankers are absolute idiots.
>Some experts said the bank shouldn’t have had multiple security deposit boxes in an area that could be accessed by a single box holder with a keycard. Each person should only be able to get to his or her own box.
Lol. The fact that it took “experts” to figure this out is pretty astounding, actually.
In all fairness, chocolates are pretty expensive.
Sweet, old men can get away with anything.
he probably shared the diamonds with the employess than he shared chocolates too.
Sounds like a good vehicle for one of Hollywood’s many elderly action stars.
How do they know it was him? Who was encouraging him to get out (and maybe pull off world class robberies) more?
pretty obvious this was an inside job. all the bankers left their jobs ten years later and collected from the old man who’d bring them chocolates. ive seen fictional movies before so take that real life!