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BELFAST - Northern Ireland police have charged a man thought to be connected with the £26.5 million heist from a Belfast bank last December in what has been termed as one of Britain's biggest bank armed robbery. The heist took place at a NAB branch at Donegall Square West in Belfast.
"A 23-year-old man has been charged with ... possession of a firearm or imitation firearm with intent to commit an indictable offence and the robbery of £26.5 million from the Northern Bank in Belfast on December 20 2004," a police spokeswoman said in a statement.
The man has also been charged with falsely imprisoning the bank's assistant manager and his wife. These two people were tied up and held at gunpoint throughout the raid that lasted the better part of two days. The blame for the Northern Bank heist was squarely placed on the militant Irish Republican Army (IRA), a charge that the group has staunchly denied.
In the current raids, police arrested five individuals connected with the Bank robbery in raids conducted on Tuesday and Wednesday. The man who is currently charged has been identified as Dominic McEvoy, a building contractor from Kilcoo, Co Down. The identities of the other four individuals are not known at the moment.
British and Irish authorities had blamed the IRA for the robbery. However the police do not have any evidence pointing towards the same and have also been able to recover only small amounts of the cash in raids on two nightclubs in February and millions still remain untraced.
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on : Sat, 05 Nov 2005 13:10 GMT | Banking News
By : Mark Richardson
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