Talk:Agricultural Bank of China robbery

A fact from Agricultural Bank of China robbery appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 August 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the perpetrators of the largest bank robbery in Chinese history spent almost all the US$6.7 million they embezzled on lottery tickets, in the hope of winning back even more than they had stolen?

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Chinese script should be added for the names of the perpetrators as well as what the robbery was called in the media. Rigadoun (talk) 00:16, 16 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Embezzlement is not robbery[edit]

Embezzlement is not robbery, rather it is fraud or theft. Robbery requires the use of force, or threat of its use, to effect the taking of money or other property. In other words, it involves committing an assault in order to committing theft. The sources are not precise nor consistent about describing what crime has been committed, as they also say this was a theft or an embezzelment. Then again, reporters are not lawyers, nor are they police officers, so we cannot expect them to understand the different definitions of robbery and theft, and they appear to be using these criminal terms very loosely and vaguely. The absence of violence means this article should be called a theft, or fraud, not a robbery. - Cameron Dewe (talk) 08:41, 26 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]