US EditionFrom Iceland — Fifty-Year Mystery Of Iceland’s First Bank Robbery Solved
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From Iceland — Fifty-Year Mystery Of Iceland’s First Bank Robbery Solved
A man involved in what is thought to be Iceland’s first bank robbery walked into a police station and confessed to the crime, police report in a Facebook post. The robbery took place early in 1975 and was relatively small in scale compared to later bank robberies. In January 1975, Mánudagsblaðið published a short article under the headline “First Bank Robbery in Iceland?” describing how unknown individuals had entered a branch of the Fisheries B…
In January 1975, Mánudagsblaðið published a small story with the headline “First bank robbery in Iceland?” It described how unknown men had entered the branch of Útvegsbankinn in Kópavogur and made off with 20-30 thousand krónur in change. The newspaper had this from sources but could not confirm it at the bank. “If this is true, the first bank robbery in Iceland has been committed here,” the newspaper wrote. This news did not receive much atten…
In 1975, over 30,000 krónur was stolen from the Útvegsbankinn in Kópavogur, which is about 182,000 krónur at today's prices. The case remained unsolved until this summer, when one of the thieves turned himself in to the police and reported what happened.
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