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Shop owner makes off with Banksy sphinx

He’s taking this Bansky — to the bank!

The owner of a Queens auto-glass shop made off with the British street artist’s latest work Tuesday afternoon in response to a big-bucks bid to purchase the piece.

Bernardo “Choco” Veles enlisted about 20 pals to help dismantle and remove Banksy’s makeshift sculpture of the Great Sphinx of Giza just hours after it appeared near his Willetts Point business.

“A big gallery truck pulled up and offered me money. He gave me a card,” said Veles, owner of Choco Auto Glass.

Veles, 27, said an unidentified woman was apparently lusting after the mini-monument, adding: “I don’t want to say more.”

The various parts of the sculpture, which was built from foam, cement and cinder-block chucks, were loaded into a white moving truck which hit the road about 4:45 p.m., destined for parts unknown.

The move outraged about two dozen Banksy fans who trekked to the industrial area near the Mets’ Citi Field stadium to see the artwork — but none of them had the guts to stop the heist.

Earlier, one man went ballistic when a Veles employee sold a brick from the base of the sculpture for $100 to a man who described himself as a “starving artist.”

“You don’t own it!” screamed Darwin Requena, 31, of Ozone Park.

“It’s for all of us! Everyone owns it! This guy charged somebody $100 for a stone from the sculpture and he doesn’t even know who the artist is!”

The stone-seller, who gave his name as “Elliot,” then got in Requena’s face and demanded that he pipe down.

“Are you looking to start something?” Elliot snarled.

“I don’t want to fight. We just want to take pictures and you’re blocking it,” Requena responded.