World’s biggest gold heist! Containers taken away from the airport, will be shocked to hear the price

toronto, A huge amount of gold and other valuables went missing from Toronto’s Pearson International airport in the Canadian city of Toronto on Friday in what turned out to be one of North America’s biggest heists in recent times. has come. Canadian officials say that gold and other valuables worth more than $14.8 million (Rs 121 crore) were stolen on Monday, April 17. According to a BBC report, an aircraft container carrying the goods arrived at the airport in the evening and was taken to the cargo holding facility.

Police believe the theft took place there. This heist may mark one of the biggest heists in Canadian history. Another such theft was the 2012 Great Canadian Maple Syrup heist, when 3,000 tonnes of syrup valued at $18.7m were stolen from a storage facility in Quebec. Also on 25 September 1952, gold worth $215,000 was stolen at Pearson’s predecessor Malton Airport. At that time it was the biggest gold heist in Canadian history. During that robbery, thieves took six wooden boxes of gold with steel cages from the cargo area of ​​the airport before loading them onto a plane bound for Montreal.

Peel Regional Police Inspector Stephen Duevesten said his team was investigating “all avenues” and described Monday’s incident as isolated and rare. At a press conference at the airport on Thursday, Duivesteen said the missing plane container was about 5 square feet (.46 square meters) in size, and contained gold and other items of monetary value. The officials refused to say which airline sent the cargo, where it was loaded, or what was its intended destination. In a statement, the airport said that the thieves did not gain access to the airport itself, but to the public part of a warehouse, which is leased to a third party outside the primary security line.

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