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02/11/2005
Two men arrested in Northern Bank probe
Two men have been arrested in connection with inquiries into last year's £26.5 million Northern Bank robbery in Belfast.
The men were arrested late on Tuesday night in Kilcoo, Co Down, a police spokesperson said.
Last year's robbery of the Northern Bank headquarters on December 20th was the largest in UK history.
The IRA were blamed for the robbery by PSNI Chief Constable Hugh Orde and the British and Irish Governments. However, both the IRA and Sinn Fein denied the accusations.
A subsequent report by the International Monitoring Commission (IMC) said the IRA was behind the robbery and that senior members of Sinn Fein had sanctioned the raid.
In it’s fourth report, published as a result of the heist, the IMC said that while Sinn Féin continually said it was opposed to criminality of any kind “it appeared at times to have its own definition of what constitutes a crime”.
(MB/SP)
The men were arrested late on Tuesday night in Kilcoo, Co Down, a police spokesperson said.
Last year's robbery of the Northern Bank headquarters on December 20th was the largest in UK history.
The IRA were blamed for the robbery by PSNI Chief Constable Hugh Orde and the British and Irish Governments. However, both the IRA and Sinn Fein denied the accusations.
A subsequent report by the International Monitoring Commission (IMC) said the IRA was behind the robbery and that senior members of Sinn Fein had sanctioned the raid.
In it’s fourth report, published as a result of the heist, the IMC said that while Sinn Féin continually said it was opposed to criminality of any kind “it appeared at times to have its own definition of what constitutes a crime”.
(MB/SP)
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