The Central Bank of Iraq robbery

    Another robbery in Baghdad became the largest bank heist in history. 

  The mastermind was    none other than Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.                  

  One day before the Iraq War  began in 2003,   he sent three large trucks to the Central Bank. 

    He also sent his son Qusay with a handwritten note asking to withdraw nearly 1  

   billion to   keep it from enemy hands. The money was loaded into vans and     driven away.

    Most of the cash was recovered in the ensuing raids  but it doesn’t end here. Tasked

    with counting the illicit loot, American soldiers made off with hundreds of thousands

     of dollars for themselves and their families. Thirty-five service members were caught.