$15M in gold and other valuables stolen in Toronto airport heist

Millions of dollars worth of gold were stolen in a robbery at Canada’s largest airport, authorities disclosed on Thursday (Apr. 20), Turanews.kz reports.

The gold and valuables worth 20 million Canadian dollars ($14.8 million) were offloaded from a plane at Pearson International Airport in Ontario and stored at a secure cargo holding facility. The high-value goods, which were first discovered missing on Monday (Apr. 17) were being moved as part of an intra-bank transfer, the Toronto Sun reported. The bank sending the shipment was TD while the airline was Air Canada, according to a confidential memo shared with the Canadian Daily. The recipient bank was not mentioned.

Not much is known about the culprit(s). The list of possibilities is long, including an inside job or an organized crime hit. Police also do not know if the gold is still in Canada or if it’s been taken out of the country.