How thieves pulled off the largest gold heist in Canadian history | About That

How could $20 million in

gold

bars and millions more in cash disappear from a warehouse at Toronto, Canada's

largest

airport, setting the stage for a multi-million dollar

heist

of

gold

and other valuables? The loot was actually inside a cargo container and disappeared. shortly after it was unloaded from a plane, this is something out of a movie, the police hardly say anything, they spend a full year investigating and then this morning everything breaks open, we have arrested nine people, we have issued three arrest warrants across Canada and we have laid 19 related charges and, as you will hear, we have disrupted the transportation of a large quantity of firearms intended to be imported here into Canada, so now we are talking about cash and golden guns, we also learned that this was an inside job that Air Canada employees were involved in. and the exact method by which they carried out the

largest

gold

heist

in Canadian

history

, one of the largest in the world, was devastatingly simple, let me explain, so I will tell you the story as best I can reconstruct it from the court. documents about police press conferences and our own reports, a precious metals refinery begins in Switzerland that has 6,600 gold bars weighing 400 kg, which is about the weight of a horse or a grand piano, but in gold it wants to send these gold bars to TD Bank in Toronto.

We know this because they appear as drawbacks on the freight bill at around the same time that a Swiss bank is trying to send cash in various currencies and denominations amounting to around $2.5 million Canadian to a Vancouver exchange house. Both companies are approaching Brinks. The armored car guys will take care of the shipment. Brinks contacts Air Canada and books the flight within days. Both shipments are en route from Zurich to Toronto on Air Canada flight 881. Both are apparently in the same container. The flight lands the same day it took off, April 17. 2023 landing at 3:56 p.m. As per normal procedure, the plane was unloaded and the cargo was transported from the plane to a cargo facility, so Air Canada still has the cargo, but this is the big moment. 45 minutes after being deposited in that warehouse, a driver appears. one of these large 5 ton trucks returns to the facility and leaves.

You have a bill of lading that authorizes you to claim the shipment, except it's not for the gold or cash, but for seafood, a shipment of seafood that had in fact already been claimed the day before an Air Canada attendant takes the way Bill looks, jumps on a forklift, grabs the container containing all the gold cash, loads it into the truck and the driver leaves $22.5 million richer. Now this doesn't make any sense, does it? And if you read the statement of claim where Brinks is suing Air Canada for losing its cargo. Also wondering what the heck you guys, there were no protocols or security features to monitor, restrict or otherwise regulate the unidentified individual's access to the facility.

They go on to say that Air Canada staff forgot to ask basic questions, made no attempt to verify Bill's authenticity in any way, and that the theft could have been avoided entirely. The answer turns out that there were two men inside, a manager and a warehouse employee, so Bill, yes. It was fake, yes, it was for seafood that no longer existed in the warehouse, but maybe that didn't matter, it was just a piece of paper that looked official because in a way it was a duplicate copy printed on an Air Canada printer. The driver presents it to the Air Canada employee.

That employee delivers the gold and cash. Please tell him the story. This was not incompetence. Everything was going according to plan when the real truck shows up 3 hours later. Air Canada employees try to find the shipment except it disappeared 6 hours later, they say damn it really disappeared, they call the police and the investigation begins. What follows is some big old fashioned police work, they search hundreds of homes and businesses, literally going door to door looking for any video. Any witness accounts that may be helpful and were they able to piece together after the fact what happened when the truck left the Air Canada facility westbound in Britannia southbound in Dixie westbound on Highway 41, the truck remains on that highway for approximately 45 minutes and heads north on Milton. but there it becomes more rural less cameras less witnesses the police lose the trail but not for long dozens of interviews and search warrants then they follow the trail they are pretty sure they know who the driver is they can't find them but they find him In the truck too They find these bracelets which the police believe is what the

thieves

turned some of that stolen gold into.

They are almost pure gold worth $889,000, cast using these molds. They also find a paper trail of approximately $430,000 in Canadian cash, perhaps saying they made a profit by selling some of the gold, and make several arrests. I meet gelot, a crazy chowri Ali razza prath pamal lingam and parm Paul sidu, he was supposedly one of the Air Canada employees working inside, the police are still looking for Simon prit panaz who is supposedly the other Air employee Canada who was working at the time of the robbery, Archit Grover and Aralon Chowri, but if you count, there are eight people, who and where was the ninth.

This case began last September with a late-night traffic stop by Pennsylvania State Police. After an overzealous cop noticed some minor motor vehicle violations, it was a bit of luck that police in Pennsylvania, about halfway between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, ended up stopping the driver of a rental vehicle last September that police say , was the same man who was driving the truck. used in Bramton gold heist During King mlan, driver Dante King mlan of Ontario was illegally in the United States and fled on foot when police officers discovered firearms in his rental car. Police found 65 guns in that car and authorities say those guns were headed to Canada, one of those firearms had a defaced serial number, 11 of them were stolen and two of them were converted into fully automatic GS machine guns according to the United States federal law.

King Mlan is still in US custody for months and could apparently face 35 years in prison, but this is where our story ends and begins in a way where the police repeat at one point over and over again that this is not just The story of a unique gold heist, it is the story of how organized crime expands its reach. expanding its power the reality of crime today and the criminal networks that we see is that they do not specialize, so profits are obtained from one criminal enterprise and then invested in others, it is not just cargo theft, this is a line of points towards the well-being of the people. -being anywhere in this country, wherever those firearms ended up, police believe the proceeds from that gold heist paid for guns like this right now, they are still working to track down the rest of the money, but they admit that gold once melted can become something so golden, quite unique, where there is no DNA in the gold, so if you change it from a solid state, you have to melt it down and put it in a different state, it is very very difficult for us to know if it is from the same one, so we believe that the gold has been melted down and reconstituted in local and possibly international markets.

Unfortunately, it can be done quite easily and that's what we're trying to figure out, so aside from the $89,000 worth of bracelets, it's still almost the full $20. millions pending, they do not know where it is, what they have spent it on or if they will recover anything