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Gold heist at Canada's biggest airport is probed by police

By Lokmat English Desk | Updated: April 22, 2023 12:56 IST

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In 2012 Abhishek Bachchan's movie 'Players' came out. In this film, a gang of thieves with clever wits and a well-planned escape steals crores of rupees worth of gold from a high-security train. Well, it's a movie story.
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In Canada, a gang of thieves cleverly stole an entire container full of gold. In this container, there was gold worth not one or two crores but as much as 121 crores. Now everyone is shocked by this theft. How did the theft happen even with so much security? Everyone has this question.
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This incident happened three days ago. The police lost sleep after this incident. Authorities said a container arrived at Toronto's Pearson International Airport on the night of April 17. The container contained gold worth 121 crores along with many valuable items.
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The container was then moved to the airport's container facility (where all containers are kept). On April 20, the entire container was found to have been stolen. When this story came to light, the security apparatus was in a panic.
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The big news is that three days have passed since the container was stolen, but the police still have no clue. Local police inspector Stephen Duveston told the Toronto Star newspaper that the container was unloaded from the plane.
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Theft of containers is extremely rare, police said. We are investigating from all angles how this container was stolen. No one has been arrested in this case yet. The police expressed confidence that some clue will be available soon.
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The Toronto Star newspaper reported that the stolen gold weighed 3,600 pounds. After the incident, the Toronto Airport Authority said it believed the thieves had rented the warehouse from a third party. Security of such warehouses is our priority.
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The police suspect the involvement of a foreign gang in this theft. It is not yet known which company the container belonged to and by which plane it came to Canada. But the gold theft of 121 crores has left many sleepless.
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