2017 Ciudad del Este robbery

A military-style robbery of Prosegur’s office occurred in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay's border town to Brazil, on April 24, 2017.

[1] The event has been termed “the robbery of the century” and “mega-robbery” by the media,[2][3] and is the “biggest heist in Paraguay’s history".

[4] In the night, about 50[3] to 80[2] heavily-armed robbers closed off the perimeter of the office with cars and, during a three-hour assault, were reportedly able to access at least one of the three vaults of the company.

[4] Authorities have assumed that the robbers came from and returned to Brazil where an apparent staging house was found across the border in Foz do Iguaçu.

A subgroup of the robbers was reported to be intercepted in Itaipulandia resulting in a gun battle during which three suspects were killed and four arrested.