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Someone in Kazakhstan watched The Ladykillers a few too many times. There was an attempted robbery on Tsenabank in Astana by digging a tunnel to the bank vault. The suspects had been working on it for 15 months. They successfully dug the tunnel from a garage to the bank and were only discovered when security noticed the opening in the building on October 17th.

The tunnel was 74 meters in length, and had tracks installed to haul the money out. It was apparently very well-dug so as not to interfere with underground cables. The thieves displaced 118 cubic meters of earth or 2000 tons, which was dumped in various landfills around the country. Police believe that one of the gang put a laser device in a safe-deposit box in Tsenabank which could then be tracked in order to guide the diggers.

So who says Kazakhstan is behind in innovative technology and the work ethic?