TORONTO — Police stated 9 individuals are dealingwith charges in what authorities are calling the greatest gold theft in Canadian history from Toronto’s Pearson International airport a year earlier.
Peel Regional Police stated Wednesday that 6,600 gold bars worth more than 20 million Canadian dollars ($14.5 million), and CA$2.5 million ($1.8 million) in foreign currencies were taken. The gold was melted down and utilized to purchase prohibited guns, cops stated.
Those charged consistof an Air Canada storagefacility worker and a previous Air Canada supervisor who offered authorities a trip of freight of the center after the theft. A preciousjewelry shop owner is likewise charged.
“This story is a mind-blowing one and which mostlikely, we jokingly state, belongs in a Netflix series,” Peel Regional Chief Nishan Duraiappah stated.
Peel Regional Detective Sgt. Mike Mavity stated the gold bars, weighing 419 kgs (923 pounds), and foreign currency, purchased from a refinery in Zurich, Switzerland, were carried in the haul of an Air Canada flight on April 17 last year.
He stated that late afternoon a truck motorist gothere at the airlinecompany’s freight storagefacility with a deceitful expense that was offered to an airlinecompany storagefacility attendant.
Mavity stated a costs for seafood that was chose up the day before was utilized to choice up the gold. The replicate expense was printed off at the Air Canada storagefacility, he stated.
“They required individuals within Air Canada to helpwith this theft,” Mavity stated in front of the truck cops state was utilized in the theft.
Mavity stated cops are browsing for the Air Canada supervisor who offered cops a trip of the center in the days after the theft. He stated that supervisor left his task last summertime and stated they have an concept of where he is.
Mavity stated some of the presumes were recognized to authorities and some were not. He stated they took 6 crudely made bracelets made of gold.
“I puton’t believe I ever envisioned they would have