List of Bank Robbers and Robberies - Iraq

Iraq

• Central Bank of Iraq— US$6.6 billion went missing sometime between 2003 to 2009. Possibly the biggest and best bank heist in history as no one even knows when or where the money was actually taken. Stuart Bowen, special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, an office created by Congress, said the missing $6.6 billion may be "the largest theft of funds in national history." (source LA Times )
• Central Bank of Iraq—Nearly US$1 billion is stolen on March 18, 2003, just hours after the United States began bombing Baghdad. This is considered the largest bank heist in history. (Source CNN )
• July 28, 2009 – 12H39 – banking – crime – Iraq (AFP) Eight dead, US$ 3.8 million dollars missing in Baghdad bank heist Thieves made off with at least 3.8 million dollars in a pre-dawn raid on a branch of state-owned Al-Rafidain bank in the central Baghdad shopping district of Karrada on Tuesday that left eight police guards dead in one of Iraq's biggest-ever heists.
• Dar Es Salaam Bank in Baghdad—About US$300 million is stolen on July 12, 2007 by the bank's security guards, but mostly recovered later. (Source: Reuters )
• Al-Rafidain Bank, in the town of al-Mishkhab, 20 miles south of Najaf-About US$5.5 million is stolen on Friday, May 28, 2010.