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3 security guards stole $300 million dollars from their bank in Baghdad

A Baghdad bank was robbed of more than $300 million (£147million) in cash by its own security guards, it was announced today, as the high levels of corruption in the Iraqi capital were once again exposed.In what is believed to be the biggest single theft since Saddam Hussein’s fall in 2003, the private Dar Es Salaam bank was found with its front doors unlocked and its entire haul of cash missing.

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