Detectives foil world’s biggest attempted bank theft

BRITISH detectives have swooped to foil one of the world’s biggest attempted bank thefts.

Fri, 18 Mar, 2005 - 00:00

The audacious plan was to steal £220 million (€316m) from the London offices of the Japanese bank Sumitomo Mitsui.

A high-tech crime ring planned to hack their way into Sumitomo’s computer systems and transfer a total of €316m electronically to 10 bank accounts around the world.

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