Great Bookie Robbery

The Great Bookie Robbery was a crime committed in Melbourne, Australia on 21 April 1976.

A well-organized gang of six stole what is widely believed to be from $14 to $16 million (2011:$88 million) from bookmakers in the Victoria Club, home of the Australian Jockey Club (AJC), which was located on the second floor of a building in Queen Street, Melbourne. The true figure for the amount stolen has never been confirmed, as the AJC quoted the missing figure to police as only $1 million to avoid the attention of the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). The men, who included Raymond "Chuck" Bennett who is believed to be the mastermind, Ian Carroll, Laurence Prendergast and Norman Lee, rented an office several floors above and hid the money in that rooms safe before coolly walking out of the building and onto the street.