$23 Million Stolen in Swiss Bank Robbery
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GENEVA — Four armed men escaped with $23 million Sunday in Switzerland’s biggest bank robbery, police said.
The robbers burst into the Union Bank of Switzerland’s branch in central Geneva and tied up two guards, a porter and a maintenance worker. They seized keys from the guards and rifled 10 foreign currency department safes holding notes weighing 440 pounds. No customer safes were broken into.
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