The perpetrators behind the Gelsenkirchen heist in Germany may have gotten away with much more money than previously reported, according to the Bild newspaper and the DPA news agency, among others.
Initially, the bank estimated that the stolen amount was around 30 million euros, and the police's official estimate has been closer to 50 million. But new information suggests it could be over 100 million euros, equivalent to more than one billion Swedish kronor.
Some of the bank's customers have said they had over 500,000 euros in their safe-deposit boxes, which, according to Bild, has led police to begin investigating the source of the money.
The heist, in which over 3,000 safe-deposit boxes were looted, took place in Gelsenkirchen in the Ruhr area, a few miles from Düsseldorf. The crime was discovered by chance on December 29.
