City bonds robbery
The City bonds robbery of 2 May 1990 was a heist in which £291.9 million (equivalent to £720M in 2025) was stolen in London, England, from a courier on his way to the Bank of England. The carefully planned operation made it seem at first as if the courier had been opportunistically mugged, yet the City of London Police soon realised that it was a sophisticated global venture which ended up involving participants such as the New York mafia, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), and Colombian drug barons.