Central Bank of Iraq
The Northern Bank robbery in Belfast, Northern Ireland, was previously thought to be the biggest cash robbery in UK history, after £26.5 million was stolen in 2004. This record was broken by the Tonbridge raid. Worldwide, the largest cash robbery in history was in March 2003, when approximately US$1 billion was stolen from the Central Bank of Iraq, shortly after the United States began the 2003 invasion of Iraq.