2024-05-03
On the afternoon of April 17, 2023, an Air Canada flight from Zurich, Switzerland, landed at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport. The plane was carrying 400 kilograms of gold and $2.5 million in foreign currency. By evening, the gold and cash had vanished.
It was the single-biggest gold heist in Canadian history.
True-crime drama
One year later, on April 17, 2024, Peel Regional Police held a press conference to announce they’d cracked the case.