the vice president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner He pointed to prosecutors Diego Luciani and Sergio Mola and with regard to the expression used in his appeal to the Cause in Vialidad, he ironically called them to “stop watching Netflix”, alluding to the Netflix documentary series 3 tons.
As this is a spectacular robbery, it is impossible not to relate it to “our robbery of the century”, perpetrated in 2006 at Banco Río de Acassuso.
“‘Three tons of evidence’: Clarín and prosecutors Luciani and Mola must stop watching Netflix. Grab the Constitution, the administrative law books and the criminal and procedural code, they don’t bite”tweeted the vice president.
Six months before the famous bank robbery at Banco Río de Acassuso, in January 2006, another one robbery of the century. It happened in August 2005, when a gang of thieves used a tunnel almost 80 meters long to enter a bank vault and, thanks to this, escaped with more than 160 million reaisor nearly 3.5 tons in cash.
Produced by Mixer Films for the Red N Company, 3 ton $: Assault on the Central Bank of Brazil recreates some of the key moments of this event that took years of investigation.
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The docuseries focused on one of the most spectacular robberies in the neighboring country. Using the testimonies of the police and the criminals themselves along with archival material, this three-episode series reconstructs the historic robbery of the Central Bank of Brazil, located in Fortaleza (Ceará).
To carry out the robbery, the thieves came up with a detailed and specific plan that allowed them to achieve their goal without any problem. In this sense, the people involved started by founding a ghost company that sold synthetic turf, which would serve as justification the amount of money that got into their hands.
Daniel Billio was responsible for writing and directing the series, while Rodrigo Astiz was in charge of the general direction and Claudia Belfort, for her part, was responsible for the research work. Adriana Marques, Íris Sodré Mendes and Mauricio Hirata Filho were executive producers who worked side by side with associate producers Gavulino Filmes and Marcos Tardin.
Our “theft of the century”
In this area, we know, it is impossible not to relate “a robbery to the cinema” with “our robbery of the century”. It was the most memorable bank robbery in Argentine criminal history.
Without firing a shot, the thieves who attacked the vault of the Banco Río branch in Avenida del Libertador e Peru, in Acassuso, on Friday 13 – yes, Friday 13 January 2006, entered the day, and escaped from a dump truck and with a rubber hose in the drain tell their version Thievespremiered on Netflix.
Source: Clarin
