BANDITS have stolen a £12million haul of gold and different “excessive worth” loot from Toronto Airport in a spectacular movie-style heist.
Canadian cops rapidly launched an investigation after thieves made off with the valuable metallic from the nation’s busiest airport.
The gold, which was being held in a safe facility, was within the means of being moved via Toronto Pearson Worldwide Airport.
The airport is usually relied on to move gold that has been mined in Ontario to bling lovers around the globe.
However artful crooks by some means managed to intercept the swag within the “high-value container” on Monday night.
Thieves seized the booty from a holding cargo facility after it was offloaded from a aircraft that had landed on the airport.
“An plane arrived right here on the airport within the early night,” Inspector Stephen Duivesteyn instructed reporters.
“As per regular process, the plane was unloaded and cargo was transported from the plane to a holding cargo facility.”
He stated the expensive spoils had been then snatched utilizing “unlawful means.”
Police are actually desperately looking for the masterminds behind the extraordinary heist.
“That is very uncommon,” Duivesteyn added.
No arrests have been made and officers didn’t launch any info on doable suspects.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have been drafted in to assist help the investigation.
However stories declare cops are trying into whether or not an area gang pulled off the theft, which echoes the plot of Hollywood blockbusters.
Focus has now fallen on organised criminals working within the area, in accordance with the Toronto Solar.
Investigators suspect the thieves could have made their escape in a heavy-duty truck because of the dimension of the swag.
It stays unclear how the gold was stolen from contained in the airport.
The Larger Toronto Airport Authority in a quick assertion: “As that is an energetic police investigation, we’re unable to offer any feedback concerning the matter at the moment.”
Bloomberg reported an RCMP spokesperson saying: “We’re nonetheless attempting to get correct info on the heist.”
The incident has drawn comparisons to the notorious Brinks-Mat theft in 1983, the place £26million of gold and diamond was stolen from a warehouse close to Heathrow Airport.
Micky McAvoy and Brian Robinson led the dangerous raid that not too long ago impressed a BBC drama, The Gold.
The cash created from the three tonnes of stolen gold – price £100million at the moment – made its method via Europe and the US, and was even funnelled via Pablo Escobar’s big drug empire in Columbia.
Half of the gold continues to be lacking – seeing some declare that anybody who has purchased gold jewelry within the UK since might be carrying Brink’s-Mat metallic.