Guards rob bank of $347m
‘Thieves have stolen nearly $US300 million ($347m) from a bank in Baghdad, police and a bank official said today, in what is probably one of the biggest thefts in Iraq since the 2003 war to topple Saddam Hussein.
Police said the thieves were three guards who worked at the private Dar Es Salaam bank in Baghdad’s Karrada district.
They said that when bank employees arrived for work yesterday they found the front door open and the money gone.
The guards, who normally slept at the bank, had also disappeared, they said.’
