Illustrations: Ruohan Wang

BREAKING BAO

Jackpot

How two lottery-crazed bank clerks cooked up China’s biggest bank robbery of all time

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28 min readDec 4, 2019

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HHandan is an industrial city of three million people in northern China, about a two hour bullet train ride from Beijing. Pollution from coal-burning factories regularly fills the sky and blots out the sun. On April 16, 2007, the fuzzy, grey star had just set…

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David Gauvey Herbert
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