When a man covering his face with a hat and a scarf walked out of the Carlton Hotel in Cannes in July with an estimated $136 million in diamonds and jewels, many assumed it was the largest theft in history. But there have been even bigger ones. Most have one thing in common: Whether or not the perpetrators are tracked down, the loot seldom is. Here are the biggest in the half-century since 1963, the year of the $49 million Great Train Robbery, all inflation-adjusted.
(This story appears in the 20 September, 2013 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)