Attila Ambrus

Quick Facts

Full Name	Attila Ambrus
Occupation	Ice Hockey Player
Date Of Birth	Oct 6, 1967(1967-10-06)
Age	57
Birthplace	Leliceni
Country	Hungary
Birth City	Leliceni
Horoscope	Capricorn

Attila Ambrus Biography

Attila Ambrus is one of the most popular and richest Ice Hockey Player who was born on October 6, 1967 in Leliceni, Leliceni, Hungary. Attila Ambrus (born October 6, 1967), alias The Whiskey Robber is a Hungarian bank robber and professional ice hockey player. He became notorious during the 1990s for committing a string of undercover “gentleman robberies” in and around Budapest, Hungary, while working a day job as a goaltender. He became infamous in Hungary as a folk hero symbolic of the times in the decade after the introduction of capitalism to the former Communist state. Ambrus was eventually caught and imprisoned for about 12 years, released in 2012. His story was told in the 2004 book Ballad of the Whiskey Robber by author Julian Rubinstein and the 2017 film A Viszkis directed by Nimród Antal.

He became known as “The Whiskey Robber”, because he was often seen drinking whiskey at a nearby pub prior to the robbery. While he later carried a gun, Ambrus never harmed anyone in his robberies, and was famous for his outlandish disguises, for presenting female tellers with flowers prior to robberies, and for sending the police bottles of wine. Immensely popular at the time of his arrest on January 15, 1999, a flag honoring the Whiskey Robber was flown at the UTE stadium for years afterwards.

His accomplice on one of his earlier heists, Károly Antal (also a Romanian of Hungarian ethnicity), was caught at the Romanian-Hungarian border in 2004 and was sentenced to two and a half years of prison. His accomplice on most of his latter heists, Gábor Orbán, served an eight-year sentence in a medium security prison.

Being released from jail, in 2012 he continued pottery production in his native country, Romania, in Csíkszereda (Miercurea Ciuc). Attila has been the subject of six songs.

Ambrus escaped from prison on July 10, 1999 using a rope made of shredded sheets, electric cords, and shoe laces. Nobody had ever escaped from that prison before. He evaded police custody for three months while living in a downtown Budapest apartment and was caught again after another robbery when police located his hideout after Ambrus accidentally left a piece of evidence behind at the crime scene. Ambrus was sentenced to 17 years in a maximum security prison. He was released early on parole because of good behavior on January 31, 2012.

Attila Ambrus Net Worth

Attila Ambrus is one of the richest Ice Hockey Player from Hungary. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Attila Ambrus 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Ambrus had trouble with the law from a young age for committing petty thefts. In 1988, Ambrus illegally crossed Romania’s borders by riding underneath a freight train and applied for political asylum and citizenship in Hungary, the latter of which he obtained in 1994.

Ambrus made a living through a variety of odd jobs, including being a gravedigger and a pelt smuggler, after which he tried out for the professional hockey team Újpesti TE. Despite his abysmal performance, he was admitted to the roster as goaltender while doubling as the team’s janitor. Ambrus’ hockey teammates gave him the nickname “The Panther from Csík.” Ambrus’s income continued to be insecure as he worked a variety of side jobs, and he committed his first robbery of a post office in 1993. After this success, Ambrus continued a string of 27 robberies of banks, post offices, and travel agents that ended with his arrest in 1999, stealing in all about 100 million forints (about half a million US Dollars).

Ambrus was the subject of the award-winning book, Ballad of the Whiskey Robber (2004) by Julian Rubinstein. Rubinstein’s book was adapted to audiobook with a full cast starring Eric Bogosian, Demetri Martin, novelist Gary Shteyngart, HBO Bored to Death’s Jonathan Ames, novelist Arthur Phillips, singer Tommy Ramone and others; it was noted for its new approach to the medium. There have been Hungarian and German theater productions of scenes from the book. The book was optioned for film by Johnny Depp and Warner Bros. of which a screenplay was written that was named to Hollywood’s 2008 Black List of best unproduced scripts of the year.

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Facts & Trivia

Attila Ranked on the list of most popular Ice Hockey Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Hungary. Attila Ambrus celebrates birthday on October 6 of every year.