70 million dollars moved through a 250 foot tunnel in 60 hours

About this episode

The episode discusses the Banco Central burglary in Fortaleza, detailing how a crew moved seventy million dollars through a tunnel over a holiday weekend.

The Banco Central burglary in Fortaleza moved roughly seventy million dollars through a two hundred fifty foot tunnel over a single holiday weekend. The crew spent three months digging from a fake landscaping company they ran as an actual business, bypassing every wall and door by coming up through the vault floor where no alarms were tuned to detect them. Charlie Cruz walks through the mechanism, the investigation break, and the one thing that gave them up.

People in this episode

Host: Charlie Cruz

Topics covered

• burglary
• true crime
• investigation
• heist
• tunnel
• money laundering

Keywords

• Banco Central
• burglary
• Fortaleza
• tunnel
• heist
• investigation
• money

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Banco Central

Places: Fortaleza

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