A subject in Iceland stole 600 Bitcoin mining equipment, escaped from prison, and boarded a flight with the country's prime minister sitting on the same plane.

Iceland's geothermal energy was the cheapest in all of Europe, making it the most profitable country on the planet for mining Bitcoin.
Huge data centers filled with mining equipment sprouted along the southern coast, and the country became one of the world's largest Bitcoin mining hubs.
Between December 2017 and January 2018, a guy named Sindri Thor Stefansson and his team of 6 people robbed four of those data centers in a series of consecutive heists.
His team disguised themselves with security uniforms and had the complicity of an actual security guard at one of the facilities, who acted as an informant.
They left with 600 mining rigs, 600 graphics cards, 100 processors, and 100 motherboards, totaling nearly 2 million dollars worth of equipment.
The Icelandic media dubbed it the Great Bitcoin Heist, the largest robbery in the country's history.
The police caught Stefansson in February 2018, along with 10 other suspects, including the insider informant.
They detained him at Sogn, an open-regime, low-security prison located about 60 miles from Keflavík International Airport.
Sogn is the kind of prison where inmates can keep their own mobile phones, watch TV on flat screens, and earn 4 dollars an hour cleaning the prison yard.
On April 17, 2018, Stefansson sat quietly in his cell, searched for flights on his phone, and bought a ticket to Stockholm under someone else's name.
He climbed out through a window, headed to the airport, and boarded the plane without showing his passport at any point because Iceland is part of the Schengen Area.
The Prime Minister of Iceland was on that same flight, heading to a meeting with Indian leader Narendra Modi.
From Stockholm, Stefansson took a train, a ferry, and a taxi to keep moving across Europe.
The police caught him a week later in Amsterdam.
While waiting to be extradited, he gave an interview to The New York Times, confessing that he actually wanted to return to Iceland because he was constantly hungry in Amsterdam and felt threatened.
A court sentenced him to four and a half years for the theft.
His escape did not add a single day to his sentence because escaping from prison is not a crime in Iceland.
The 600 mining rigs never turned up.
Iceland later tracked them to China, where it is believed they are still operational today, mining Bitcoin for whoever ended up with them.