Toronto Pearson International Airport heist
Toronto Pearson International Airport flight lines | |
| Date | April 17, 2023 |
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| Location | Toronto Pearson International Airport, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Coordinates | 43°40′36″N 079°37′50″W / 43.67667°N 79.63056°W |
| Outcome | More than C$20 million of items stolen |
| Missing | Foreign currency and gold |
On April 17, 2023, a major theft occurred at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Canada, with over C$20 million (US$15 million) worth of gold and cash in foreign currency being stolen. In the evening of Monday, April 17, a container which contained gold bars and foreign currency was offloaded off an inbound aircraft and transferred to an Air Canada holding facility at the airport where Air Canada staff were tricked by a forged shipping document to load it onto a getaway truck. Nine people have been charged with the heist.
According to Peel Regional Police lead investigator Det.-Sgt. Mike Mavity, the theft was the single-largest gold heist in Canadian history. According to the Gold Bullion Company, a British group that monitors such events, it was the sixth-largest gold theft in world history.