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☆ Canada’s gold heist: Inside one of the biggest thefts in the annals of crime
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-20 | by ( Ramon Sanchez | Ray Sanchez | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

“One which we jokingly say belongs in a Netflix series.”A truck driver with a fraudulent waybill for a seafood shipment picks up the container. Instead of a load of farm-raised seafood, the truck driver pulled away from the loading dock with loot. “They needed people inside Air Canada to facilitate this theft,” Peel Regional Police Det. In its legal response to the Brink’s lawsuit, Air Canada has denied it was “careless” and its security lax. Canadian police had identified him as the truck driver early in the investigation but had not been able to locate him.

Persons: ”, Nishan Duraiappah, Nando Iannicca, Canada “, ” Duraiappah, ’ ” Patrick Brown, –, Mike Mavity, Mavity, couldn’t, “ We’re, ” Mavity, “, it’s, Brink’s, Eric, “ They’re, Nick Milinovich, Duraiappah, CNN’s Paula Newton, Fabiana Chaparro Organizations: CNN, Toronto Pearson International, Air Canada, ” Peel Regional Police, Netflix, Peel Regional Police, Peel, Canadian, CSI, Vancouver Bullion & Currency Exchange, Air, Police, ” Air Canada, Authorities, Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, Explosives, ” Police, Investigators, Court, Middle, Middle District of Pennsylvania, ” Peel Locations: Zurich, Switzerland, Canada, Pennsylvania, Florida, Georgia, Brampton, Toronto, Air Canada, United Kingdom, Dubai, India, Franklin County , Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Middle District, Atlanta

☆ Nine People, Including an Airline Worker, Are Arrested in $14.5 Million Gold Heist
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-17 | by ( Ian Austen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It was a brazen theft: thousands of gold bars and millions of dollars in bank notes stolen a year ago from Toronto’s international airport. On Wednesday, Canadian authorities announced the arrest of nine people, including an Air Canada employee, in connection with the theft of more than 20 million Canadian dollars, about $14.5 million, in gold bars and 2.5 million dollars, about $1.8 million, in bank notes that vanished from a warehouse at Toronto Pearson Airport in April 2023. Arrest warrants have also been issued for three other people, including a manager at the airline. “One we jokingly say belongs in a Netflix series.” The Peel police are responsible for law enforcement at Toronto’s airport. The gold, Chief Duraiappah said, was partly used to buy guns that were bound for Canada.

Persons: Nishan Duraiappah, Duraiappah Organizations: Air Canada, Toronto Pearson Airport, Peel Regional Police, Netflix, Peel Locations: Toronto, Toronto’s, Canada, Pennsylvania

☆ Airline worker among six arrested in $22M airport gold heist. Police say it was an inside job
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-17 | by ( Paula Newton | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

The gold and currency had just arrived on an Air Canada flight from Zurich, Switzerland. At least two former Air Canada employees allegedly helped in the audacious theft, police say. “They needed people inside Air Canada to facilitate this theft,” Detective Sgt. “This was the largest gold heist in Canadian history, reportedly, it’s the sixth largest in world crime history,” said Deputy Police Chief Nick Milinovich. “I don’t think I ever imagined they’d have to deal with the largest gold heist in Canadian history, it’s almost out of an Ocean’s Eleven movie or a CSI.

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CNN —The home of a Canadian Sikh activist in Brampton, Ontario, was hit by gunfire on Monday, months after the assassination of another activist sent India-Canada relations into a spiral. “It appears that only one bullet hole was found but that is subject to change,” Peel Regional Police wrote in a statement. The bullet hole in Gosal's home in Brampton, Ontario. The Canadian citizen was gunned down by masked men last June outside a Sikh temple in British Colombia. Weeks later, the United States accused an Indian government official of being involved in a conspiracy to kill another Sikh separatist, American citizen Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, on US soil.

Persons: Inderjit Singh, Gosal, Singh, Justin Trudeau, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, Weeks, Gurpatwant Singh, Pannun, Nikhil Gupta, Gupta, Nijjar, “ Organizations: CNN, Justice, Peel Regional Police, Indian Consulate Toronto, Canadian, Indian, Global Affairs Canada Locations: Brampton , Ontario, India, Canada, India’s Punjab, British Colombia, United States, Ontario, Punjab

☆ An elderly passenger tried to open the door of a Boeing 787 while it was flying over the Atlantic Ocean
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-26 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Read previewAn elderly man tried to open a plane door while flying over the Atlantic Ocean, Canada's CityNews reported. Another passenger on board Sunday's Air Canada flight from London to Toronto told the outlet he was "acting strange" throughout the journey. It's the third peculiar incident on board an Air Canada flight this month. Although, unlike those incidents, Sunday's flight was able to continue to its destination without delay. In a statement, Air Canada said: "Our crews are experienced and managed the situation appropriately, allowing the flight to continue normally to its destination."

Persons: —, Canada's CityNews, Constable Tyler Bell, Morena Organizations: Service, Sunday's Air Canada, Business, Peel Regional Police, Boeing, Air Locations: London, Toronto, Air Canada, Calgary

☆ Nearly $15 Million in Gold and Valuables Stolen From Toronto Airport
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Jennifer Calfas | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Officials said the thieves didn’t access the airport but a warehouse leased to a third party. Photo: Cole Burston/ReutersCanadian police are investigating the disappearance of nearly $15 million in gold and other valuable items from an air cargo container at Toronto Pearson International Airport. Peel Regional Police Inspector Stephen Duivesteyn said the high-value container was removed “by illegal means” from a holding cargo facility at the Toronto-area airport Monday. Mr. Duivesteyn said the gold and other items inside the standard aircraft container, which he estimated was around five to six square feet, were valued at nearly $15 million. This type of crime is “very rare,” he said.

☆ Somebody stole gold and other valuables worth $15 million from Canada's busiest airport, police said
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Ryan Hogg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Thieves made off from Toronto Pearson airport with gold and valuables worth $15 million, police said. The gold was part of an intra-bank trade involving TD Bank, per a memo seen by the Toronto Sun. Police are investigating a "very rare" heist in which gold and other valuables worth more than C$20 million (about $15 million) were stolen from Canada's busiest airport. This did not involve access to Toronto Pearson itself and did not pose a threat to passengers or GTAA staff." Air Canada, and TD Bank didn't immediately respond to requests for comment from Insider, made outside normal working hours.

☆ $14.8 Million in Gold and Valuables Vanishes From Toronto’s Airport
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Ian Austen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

OTTAWA — Early Monday evening, a special container, about five to six square feet, was unloaded from an airplane at Toronto’s international airport. Inside it was more than 20 million Canadian dollars, about $14.8 million, in gold and other valuables. It was swiftly moved into a secure cargo holding facility. “We are three days in, so our investigators have their eyes open to all avenues,” Inspector Duivesteyn told reporters in Mississauga, Ontario, where the airport is. “We are looking at all angles of how this item was stolen.”

☆ Canadian police investigating C$20 million gold heist at Toronto airport
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Nia Williams | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

April 20 (Reuters) - Canadian police are investigating the theft of a C$20 million ($14.84 million) cargo of gold and other valuables that was stolen from a holding facility at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday. The cargo was reported missing after arriving on an aircraft early Monday evening, Peel Regional Police Inspector Stephen Duivesteyn told a news conference on Thursday. Duivesteyn said after the aircraft landed the cargo was unloaded and taken to a holding facility, as per normal procedure, but disappeared some time afterwards. "Subsequent to its arrival this high value cargo was removed by illegal means from the holding facility," Duivesteyn told reporters. The cargo was reported missing to police a short time later.

☆ $15 million in gold and other valuables stolen at Toronto airport, police say
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Paula Newton | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —An air cargo container carrying more than $15 million in gold and other valuables disappeared from Toronto’s Pearson International Airport Monday, and police are still trying to find out who is behind the high-value heist. The aircraft was unloaded and cargo was taken to a holding facility early Monday evening, “as per normal procedure,” said Stephen Duivesteyn of Peel Regional Police at a Thursday news conference at the airport. Then, “this high-value container was removed by illegal means from the holding facility,” he said. Police would not say whether security cameras captured the heist, which airline company transported the container or who owns the container. “What I can say is that the container contained a high-value shipment, it did contain gold but was not exclusive to gold and contained other items of monetary value,” said Duivesteyn, estimating the contents are worth about $15 million ($20 million Canadian dollars).

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