Toronto Pearson International Airport heist
2023 Canadian heist
Toronto Pearson International Airport heist
On April 17, 2023, a major theft occurred at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Canada, with over C$20 million (US$15 million) worth of cash and gold in foreign currency being stolen. In the evening of Monday, April 17, a container with gold bars and foreign currency was offloaded from an inbound aircraft and transferred to an Air Canada holding facility at the airport, where Air Canada staff were tricked with a forged shipping document into loading it onto a getaway truck. Nine people have been charged with the heist. According to Peel Regional Police lead investigator Det.-Sgt. Mike Mavity, the theft was the single largest gold heist in Canadian history. According to the Gold Bullion Company, a British group that monitors such events, it was the sixth-largest gold theft in recorded history.
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