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A true crime story worth its weight in goldShortly before 7am on Saturday 26 November 1983, an armed gang burst into the Brink's-Mat security warehouse near London's Heathrow Airport. They expected to find a million pounds in foreign currency. To their surprise, they found gold bullion worth £26 million. Making off with the gold, the gang committed what was at the time the largest robbery in the world, and unwittingly set off an extraordinary, decades-long chain of events.The Brink's-Mat robbery led to the birth of international large-scale money laundering, provided the dirty money that fuelled the London Docklands property boom, changed British policing, and sparked a series of violent murders that continued until 2015.As such, the Brink's-Mat job was the most significant robbery of all time, yet its full, epic story has never been told in its entirety.
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The Gold, Neil Forsyth
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- Released
- 2023
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- Title
- The Gold
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Neil Forsyth
- Publisher
- Ebury Publishing
- Released
- 2023
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN10
- 1529149533
- ISBN13
- 9781529149531
- Series
- Rating
- 3.85 out of 5
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- A true crime story worth its weight in goldShortly before 7am on Saturday 26 November 1983, an armed gang burst into the Brink's-Mat security warehouse near London's Heathrow Airport. They expected to find a million pounds in foreign currency. To their surprise, they found gold bullion worth £26 million. Making off with the gold, the gang committed what was at the time the largest robbery in the world, and unwittingly set off an extraordinary, decades-long chain of events.The Brink's-Mat robbery led to the birth of international large-scale money laundering, provided the dirty money that fuelled the London Docklands property boom, changed British policing, and sparked a series of violent murders that continued until 2015.As such, the Brink's-Mat job was the most significant robbery of all time, yet its full, epic story has never been told in its entirety.