The Perfect Heist: Japan's 300 Million Yen Mystery
In 1968, a fake police officer pulled off the ultimate victimless heist in Tokyo. It remains unsolved to this day.
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In 1968, a fake police officer pulled off the ultimate victimless heist in Tokyo. It remains unsolved to this day.
Full transcript of The Perfect Heist: Japan's 300 Million Yen Mystery
In 1968, a single man pulled off the greatest heist in Japanese history. He stole three hundred million yen. He never fired a shot. And he simply vanished. It started on a rainy December morning in Tokyo. Four bank employees were transporting bonuses for factory workers. Suddenly, a police officer on a motorcycle pulled them over. He warned them that their branch manager's house had just been blown up. And that dynamite was planted under their car. The officer crawled underneath to check. Seconds later, smoke poured from beneath the chassis. "It's going to blow!" he screamed. The terrified bank workers sprinted for their lives. But there was no bomb. It was just a standard emergency flare. The fake cop calmly got into the bank car... ...and drove away with the equivalent of millions of dollars. The massive manhunt yielded over a hundred pieces of evidence. But the statute of limitations expired in 1975. The ultimate perfect crime.