CANADA: Police are looking into a significant gold theft that happened at Toronto Pearson International Airport. Gold from the Canadian province of Ontario is routinely transported via this international airport.
According to officials, the Toronto Pearson International Airport was the scene of a massive gold theft that police are investigating.
According to Canadian authorities, on Monday, April 17, more than C$20 million ($15 million, £12 million) worth of gold and valuables were taken.
The products were taken to a cargo holding facility after an aeroplane container carrying them landed at the airport in the evening. According to the police, the heist happened at the international airport.
The recent gold heist was the largest in Canada in the previous ten years. Prior to this, the theft of 3,000 tonnes of Maple syrup between 2011 to 2012 from a Quebec storage facility is one of the biggest robberies in Canadian history. Inspector Stephen Duivesteyn of the Peel Regional Police stated that the team is looking into “all possible avenues” and that the incident on Monday was unusual and isolated.
Duivesteyn claims that the lost aircraft container was 5 square feet (.46 square metres) in size and held additional goods with monetary value. Officials have chosen not to reveal which aircraft carried the object, where it came from, or where it was going. The aim is to find the culprit in this heist and find a remedy.
Tourists are not in danger, but police believe organised crime gangs are involved. The timing of the incident is inconclusive, according to Duivesteyn.
The airport has been investigating for three days and is looking at all possible ways that the item may have been stolen. It has stated that the burglars did not enter the actual airport but rather “accessed the public side of a warehouse leased to a third party outside of our primary security line”.
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