A cargo container with just over $20 million in gold and other expensive valuables has been stolen from Toronto Pearson International Airport.
Police said a “high value container” in a cargo holding facility was stolen on April 17, soon after arriving by plane.
“An aircraft arrived here at the airport in the early evening. As per normal procedure, the aircraft was unloaded and cargo was transported from the aircraft to a holding cargo facility,” Peel Regional Police Inspector Stephen Duivesteyn said at a news conference outside the police station on April 20.
Duivesteyn said the container was removed from the holding facility “by illegal means,” and would not disclose which airline transported the gold. The Globe and Mail reported on April 20 that the gold was being shipped through Air Canada’s cargo operations….