Dig this: gang grabs €54.75m in tunnel heist

THE Hollywood scriptwriters are already lining up to pen the screen version of an audacious €54.75m heist uncovered in north-eastern Brazil.

Dig this: gang grabs €54.75m in tunnel heist

It emerged that the thieves spent three months tunnelling under a busy city avenue to break into a Central Bank vault.

It is already being hailed as one of the world's biggest robberies, netting $67.8m. The method was remarkably similar to a tunnel heist last year in which over $1m (€0.8m) was stolen from a Sao Paulo company that transports money for banks.

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