Canadian police announced on Thursday that they are investigating a theft of the equivalent of more than 20 million Canadian dollars (13.5 million euros) in gold and valuables at Toronto airport earlier this week. The gold and these very expensive objects arrived Monday evening by plane and were unloaded and placed in a logistics hangar, said Stephen Duivesteyn, a local police official, before their absence was noted shortly. After.
“The container containing these valuables was stolen with illegal means from the storage space,” he said at a press conference. He gave no information on the modus operandi or on any suspect. “Our investigators are keeping all leads open,” he told reporters, adding that such “very rare” mischief had no impact on passenger traffic.
1.6 tons of gold
According to the local daily Toronto Sunit would be more than 1.6 tonnes of gold that would have evaporated from the airport – which would be equivalent to much more than the 20 million Canadian dollars quoted by the authorities.