Peel Regional Police (PRP) investigators also seized approximately $434,000 in Canadian currency, smelting equipment, and one kilogramme of gold worth approximately $89,000.00, believed to be from the theft."
This investigation remains a priority for Peel Regional Police. The cross-jurisdictional boundaries will not hinder our ability to charge and arrest those responsible. We are working closely with national and international law enforcement partners to arrest those responsible and hold them accountable,
Peel Regional Police immediately started the investigation, which has crossed borders, and we have been working collaboratively with the Philadelphia Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF),
One left the company prior to the arrests announced today, and the second has been suspended,
On April 17, 2023, at 3:56 pm a flight landed at Pearson International Airport from Zurich, Switzerland, with a cargo containing 6,600 bars of .9999% pure gold, weighing 400 kilogrammes, valued at over 20 million dollars and CAD 2.5 million worth in foreign currency. Shortly after landing, it was offloaded and transported to a separate location on Airport property,
They needed people within Air Canada to facilitate this theft,
I don’t think I ever imagined they would have to deal with the largest gold heist in Canadian history,
I'm proud to say that we successfully put an international gun trafficking operation out of business. We kept 65 firearms off the streets of Canada and prevented them from being used in any number of crimes,
We believe that [the thieves have] melted down the gold and then the profits they got from the gold, they used to help finance the firearms,
This was the largest gold heist in Canadian history. Reportedly, it’s the sixth largest in world crime history,
This particular theft has become the largest gold theft in Canadian history,
As this is now before the courts, we are limited in our ability to comment further,
The missing piece (of this investigation) is where did it go?”
There may be people calling in anonymously, and just saying, ‘Look, I didn't realize that this guy was part of this but having said that, seven months ago, he said to me A, B, and C.’ So there's all kinds of things that will further this investigation as we move down the road,
This story is a sensational one and one which probably, we jokingly say, belongs in a Netflix series,
This isn't just about a gold heist, this is about how gold becomes guns,
One of those firearms had an obliterated serial number, 11 of them were stolen, and two of them were converted into fully automatic machine guns,
No security protocols or features were in place to monitor, restrict or otherwise regulate the unidentified individual's access to the facilities,
A common term in drug trafficking investigations, we believe these lists actually show where the money was distributed when the gold was sold by the suspects,
He has been known to us since early on in the investigation. He actually led a tour for Peel Regional Police before we knew his involvement,