The Brink’s-Mat robbery was one of the largest thefts in British history.
The company was owned through a complex offshore web by British former solicitor's clerk Geoffrey Greenlees who was wanted in connection with the 1983 gold bullion raid at Heathrow airport ...
It all began with six men in a van. On the 26 November 1983, half a dozen armed men broke into the Brink’s-Mat depot near London’s Heathrow Airport, where they were expecting to find a million pounds ...
NEW YORK(AP) — In 1983, six thieves muscled their way into a warehouse near Heathrow Airport, expecting to find a large sum of foreign currency. They got much more than they bargained for — 26 million ...