1,500 Pounds of Gold Gone in Three Minutes During Brazil Heist
- Gold bars worth $30 million were taken from Sao Paulo airport
- Theft involved armed men disguised as federal police agents
Police inspect the vehicles that were left by suspects involved in heist carried out at Sao Paulo's Guarulhos international airport, on July 25, 2019.
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It took less than three minutes for eight armed men to make off with $30 million worth of gold bars from Sao Paulo’s international airport -- possibly the second-largest heist in Brazil’s history.
Criminals disguised as federal police officers drove to the Guarulhos airport on Thursday afternoon in an SUV and flatbed truck, both fashioned to look official, according to the airport’s press office. Security camera footage shows them wearing balaclavas and giving orders to cargo terminal employees, one of whom used a forklift to load the precious cargo onto the truck’s bed.