दावा- कनाडा में चोरी हुआ 400 किलो सोना भारत आया: पिछले साल हुई थी इतिहास की सबसे बड़ी चोरी, पूरा कंटेनर गायब कर गए चोर

This theft took place on 17 April 2023. It contained gold and other valuables worth $14.8 million i.e. Rs 121 crore.

Canadian police have accepted that the gold bricks worth billions of rupees that went missing from Pearson Airport will never be found. On April 17 last year, 6600 gold bricks were stolen from the Canada Cargo Terminal at Toronto’s Pearson Airport. Police came to know about this biggest theft of gold three days later.

The weight of these gold bricks was 400 kg. The cost of these bricks was about 121 crores in Indian rupees at that time. These stolen gold bricks have not been recovered till date. Canadian police have suspected that this gold might have reached India and Dubai.

Theft in crime series style, gold stolen in 42 minutes
Canadian police said the theft was done in the style of a Netflix crime series. The gold and cash were stolen from an airport cargo centre. The gold was stolen within 42 minutes of arriving at the airport in Switzerland.

Police said that it was cleverly shifted to a container facility. On April 20, three days after the incident, it was discovered that the entire cargo had been stolen. Fake receipts were used for this theft. Police said that three people of Indian origin are also among the accused arrested in this theft case.

According to the police, the thieves emptied the entire container in just 42 minutes

The police called it the biggest robbery in history.
Lead investigator Detective Sergeant Mike Mavity of the Peel Regional Police (PRP) said they believe a large portion of the stolen gold has gone to major gold markets overseas, where the gold is taken along with the serial numbers and then melted down.

Mavity said all this must have happened immediately after the incident. Peel Regional Police (PRP) had earlier described this theft as the biggest gold robbery ever in Canada. This theft was named ‘Project’.

Giving information about the arrests in this case, the police had said that this theft was carried out with the help of 2 employees of the airline. Now a case is going on against these employees. The police said that they have received information that this gold was melted and gold bracelets were made and then they were sold.

Gold worth Rs 14 crore stolen from plane
This was not the first time gold was stolen from Pearson Airport. A similar incident occurred on September 25, 1952, when 4 out of 10 boxes of gold were stolen from a flight arriving from Toronto to Montreal.

The value of the stolen gold was Rs 14 crore. It was the biggest theft in Canadian history at that time. This theft could not be solved till date. The police could never complete the investigation of this theft in the plane.

In 1974 also, gold worth Rs 27 crore was stolen
In 1974, a case of open theft of gold came to light in Canada. During this time, gold worth Rs 27 crore was stolen from Ottawa airport. It was kept in a room.

According to the New York Times report, at 11:30 pm, the thieves threatened the room guard with a gun and tied him to a pipe. Later it was found out that this was the work of a gang named Stopwatch. They cleverly carried out the thefts at fixed times.

Three people were arrested in this case. One of them was famous by the name of ‘Ghost’. The reason for this was that after committing the theft, he used to easily escape by mixing himself in the crowd.