Peel police to announce arrests in Pearson Airport gold heist
The timing of this immediately made me think of the article posted the other day about there being no news since it happened a year ago.
Also found this: Arrests in $20-million Toronto airport gold heist stem from cross-border gun running plot
NaPo archive: https://archive.ph/DFkMw
The two cargo shipments — emblazoned with the words BANKNOTES and GOLDBARS — were offloaded from the plane about 20 minutes later and deposited at an Air Canada storage facility about an hour and a half after that.
They also had the text "DO NOT STEAL" and "LOTS OF MONEYS" stenciled on them.
When the thieves were finally caught, they were wearing black and white striped jumpsuits and black balaclavas. They were also carrying large burlap sacks with a dollar sign emblazoned on the side.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Mike Mavity and Eric DeGree, special agent in charge of the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Bureau, are scheduled to speak.
According to court documents obtained by CBC News, on April 14, 2023, Brink's was commissioned by two Swiss banks — Raiffeisen and Valcambi — to move more than 400 kilograms of gold, and $1,945,843 in US bills, from Zurich to Toronto.
The cargo was loaded on to flight AC881, which departed Zurich at 1:25 p.m. local time on April 17 and arrived safely at Pearson at 3:56 p.m., without incident.
The two cargo shipments — emblazoned with the words BANKNOTES and GOLDBARS — were offloaded from the plane about 20 minutes later and deposited at an Air Canada storage facility about an hour and a half after that.
Brink's says it reached out to Air Canada on April 27, 2023 to let the airline know it was demanding a full reimbursement of the costs it has sustained.
In a Nov. 8, 2023 statement of defence, Air Canada rejected "each and every allegation" in the Brink's suit, saying it fulfilled its carriage contracts and denying any improper or "careless" conduct.
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