Argentine thieves tunnel into bank over New Year

Source: washingtonpost.com/AP

The Associated Press
Monday, January 3, 2011; 6:50 PM
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- Thieves dug a 100-foot-long (30-meter-long) ventilated and lit tunnel from a neighboring building into an Argentine bank and emptied the contents of up to 140 safety deposit boxes, officials said Monday.

Authorities said three thieves entered a Banco Provincia branch in the Buenos Aires district of Belgrano on New Year's Eve when it was closed and spent the weekend opening and emptying between 130 and 140 of the branch's 1,408 boxes. The robbery wasn't discovered until the bank opened Monday.

Bank executives didn't say how much the thieves got away with because clients are not obliged to tell authorities what was in their safety deposit boxes.(snip)

Many Argentines began putting their savings in bank safety deposit boxes instead of bank accounts following the country's 2001 financial crisis, when many depositors lost savings.

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