Toni Musulin
| Toni Musulin | |
|---|---|
| Born |
8 June 1970 Saint-Martin-d'Hères, France |
| Occupation | Security van driver |
| Criminal charge | Misappropriated Banque de France van |
| Criminal penalty | 3 years in prison on May 12th 2010, extended to 5 years on November 3rd 2010 |
| Criminal status | Released |
Toni Musulin (born 8 June 1970) is a French man of Serb and Croat origins, and a former security van driver for the Loomis security firm.
He is known for having stolen 11.6 million euros from the Banque de France while on duty. At the time of the theft, he had emptied his flat and bank account. His colleagues reported that he had complained about the security firm and poor working conditions.
Musulin became a hot topic of conversation on a social networking website, where he was praised for "the heist of the century" and for doing it without resorting to violence or guns.
Toni Musulin was born in Saint-Martin-d'Hères on 8 June 1970 and grew up in Seynod with his brother and sister after his family moved there shortly after his birth. His father, Vinko Musulin, is an electrician who emigrated, when he was 22 years old, from Yugoslavia to France in 1965.
Toni Musulin's first career was as an electrician, like his father. At some point he founded a "" (SCI Jacquemart) through which he bought an apartment building located 16 rue Jacquemart in Romans-sur-Isère in the Drôme department, with the ground floor being rented out as small shop.
At the end of the 1990s he became a security van driver for Loomis, for which he worked for 10 years, until the theft. His mother, also of Serbian origin, had by then divorced his father and was living in New Caledonia with her daughter Laurène.
Shortly before the theft, he emptied out his bank accounts, worth then 137,000 €, which was a significant amount for someone being paid 1,700 € per month. Most of that money was in fact obtained through loans from multiple banks.
He was 39 years old when the theft occurred.
On 5 November 2009 he stole the armored van he was driving containing 11.6 million euros. This was made possible by lenient application of security procedures. The armored van was found empty shortly later with its GPS tracking device disabled. On November 7, the police were tipped off by witnesses and searched a garage in which they found most of the stolen cash: 9.1 million euros as well as a hired van. The remaining 2.5 million however could not be found. Musulin claims that he left them in the van with the rest of the cash. He claims that he did the robbery because he had been "mistreated" while at his job.
...
Wikipedia