re: Nightly IM Thread | Robbie's 10K Post Party Edition

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Ren Xaiofeng and Ma Xiangjing used their positions as vault managers to carry out what is now recognized as the largest bank robbery in Chinese history. It was quite a strange series of heists however, not possessing the cunning or tact discussed in the other examples. It all started with Xaiofeng’s original heist of 200,000 yuan from the Agricultural Bank of China, which he planned to repay by winning the lottery. This was not the brightest strategy, but amazingly, he was able to repay 200,000 yuan to cover this first theft. But this “success” served only to enflame his passions for robbery, and with the aid of Xiangjing and two security guards, Ren proceeded to steal 32 million yuan – again, spending nearly all of it on lottery tickets. Lady luck wasn’t as forthcoming this time though, prompting the group to steal another 18 million yuan soon thereafter for a last-ditch effort at striking it big in lottery winnings. In their article Lottery Bank Robbers to be Executed the UK’s Independent noted that the two, “…won prize money of just 98,000 yuan in all and used that and the remaining 4m yuan to buy escape cars and fake ID and flee,” before being caught and taken to trial for the string of robberies.

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