Pearson gold robbery: another suspect arrested

May 10, 2024 Vaseline stjohnson 0

Another suspect is in custody in connection with the gold theft at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport last year, while a former Air Canada employee involved in the scheme remains outstanding, police say.

In a news release Thursday, police said Archit Grover, a 36-year-old man from Brampton, was arrested on May 6.

He was detained after flying to Toronto from India and arrested for theft over $5,000 and conspiracy to commit an indictable offence.

Grover is also being charged in the United States with firearms charges, police said.

Peel Regional Police identified and charged or issued warrants against ten people, laying more than 21 charges last month.

Police announced the charges at a news conference a year after the largest gold heist in Canadian history.

Archit Grover was arrested on May 6 after flying into Toronto’s Pearson Airport.
On April 17, 2023, a flight landed at the Toronto Area Airport from Zurich, Switzerland. On board were 6,600 gold bars with 99.9 percent purity weighing more than 400 kilograms, which police valued at $20 million, along with $2.5 million Canadian in foreign currency.

Shortly after landing, a suspect arrived in a five-tonne delivery truck at the Air Canada cargo facility and obtained the valuable cargo by showing a false air waybill to a warehouse manager.

A forklift then arrived and loaded the stolen gold and money into the back of the truck, according to investigators. The suspect then left with the gold.

Shortly before 3 a.m., Air Canada employees reported the cargo missing and Peel police launched an investigation.

Arrest warrants have still been issued across Canada for four suspects, including Simran Preet Panesar, a 31-year-old man who worked for Air Canada at the time of the heist, Peel police said. He is wanted for theft over $5,000 and conspiracy to commit an indictable offense.

Arsalan Chaudhary, a 42-year-old man of no fixed address, and Durante King-Mclean, a 25-year-old man from Brampton, are wanted for the same offences, as well as two counts of possession of property obtained by crime. for Chaudhary.

During King-Mclean, a 25-year-old man from Brampton, is currently in US custody on charges related to firearms trafficking. Investigators say they have been in contact with him and his legal counsel.