Orders that took gold and money, tours in tombolas, museums: spectacular flights that look like movies

Three minutes was enough for a captained men's command take 46 million pesos (2.5 million USD) from the Guanajuato International Airport. The robbery occurred Wednesday night when the operators of a cargo van boarded a plane 18 bags full of money, of which 12 were taken by six armed individuals.

Until now, he does not know where the attackers are nor the the money they took.

This flight adds to a list of spectacular flights committed in Mexico. In most cases, those responsible have gone unpunished and the fate of the robbery is a mystery.

The badault on the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City on Christmas Eve 1985 left the country stunned. Carlos Perches Treviño and Ramón Sardina Garcia, two university students, decided to take advantage of December 25, to enter the place through the air conditioning ducts and perform in three hours one of the more weird and outrageous flights in the story.

We still remember the theft of more than 100 archaeological pieces. greater dispossession made to the patrimony Mexican Archeology The government's concern was not only for theft but because none of the pieces had any insurance. One, an obsidian ship-shaped monkey, had an estimated value of 20 million USD.

As part of the investigations, a set collector's hunt private parties in the port of Acapulco, in the states of Quintana Roo, Yucatán, Michoacán and the US border, but the fact was that the students had taken these objects home and kept them in a suitcase they had left. in a closet.

The Association of Friends of the National Museum of Anthropology offered a reward of 50 million pesos (2.6 million USD) to those who provided accurate data to find the pieces and the culprits of the theft, but no one did not say anything.

So the months went by and with the celebration of Mexico World Cup 1986between May 31 and June 29, the flight of the century was almost forgotten.

It was until June 10, 1989, after being betrayed by a narcothat Carlos was arrested along with six other people, including his brother Luis, and a star known as "Princess Yamal", an American named Gari Nathan Clevenger and an Argentina named Cristina Gloria González.

Until now, we do not know what was the real reason to steal the museum because Perches was killed After spending a decade in a prison. His accomplice, Ramón Sardina, disappeared with what he received in payment. All the pieces have never been recovered.

In April 2015 a the order has entered the mine El Gallo 1, located in the mountainous region of Municipality of Mocorito, Sinaloa, owned by the Canadian company McEwen Mining.

Armed men 900 kilos were taken from the mine of material, among them 198 pounds of gold worth approximately 8.4 million USD.

According to the state government, the theft was well planned and allegedly committed by people familiar with the movement of the mine.

"No employees were injured Seriously, no material damage has been reported against the mine's facilities, "the company said in a statement, lamenting that" the insurance policy is not enough to cover all the estimated losses " The statement, however, did not give more details of how the theft had been executed. group of armed men entered the night instead, subject the employees and subtract the material. Four years later, no one was arrested.

They hit "the big lottery"

One of the most memorized flights was carried out in 2012 the employees of the system Melate Lottery and Just Marketing Companythanks to which they obtained 160 million pesos (8.3 USD) thanks to 8 seconds inserts pre-recorded images they have made in the plans in which the competition results were posted.

The one known as "Flight of the melate" A dozen people, including marketing workers and public companies, were responsible for the draws.

Just Marketing was responsible for recording and transmitting on video the draws of Forecasts for Public Assistance and in complicity with involved in the organization They coordinated a fraud with the number 2518 from Melate and Revancha to win the prize of 160 million pesos.

The newspaper Reform he published that the operating mode he was simulate the draw of January 22, 2012, recording in advance, thanks to which the looting materialized.

Before the results are broadcast on national television, the employees bought the tickets and filled them with exact figures – that day there were 06, 12, 15, 24, 25 and 49 and 09, 20, 36, 51, 53 and 54. Then they showed the video to an auditor of the Ministry of Inside, to validate the drawing, making him believe that the real time was done.

When the relatives of the company representatives and Forecasts were introduced to collect the prices, the suspicions were unleashed. After an investigation, Predictions for the Asistencia Pública discovered that two people share the Melate jackpot of 112 million pesosand two others, that of La Revancha denominated 48 million.

At the end of the investigations, the federal authorities ordered the freezing of the bank accounts of four officials and employees of Just Marketing, for example. avoid the money spent.

In 2015, the Office of the Attorney General (PGR) arrested Héctor Hugo López Jiménez, former deputy director of predictions regarding competitions and sports as part of the public badistance, as alleged fraudster. According to the authorities, 99% of the stolen were recovered.