{"id":1820,"date":"2023-04-22T10:02:10","date_gmt":"2023-04-22T10:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/findbullionprices.com\/blog\/?p=1820"},"modified":"2023-06-12T14:02:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T14:02:02","slug":"gold-currency-heist-reported-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/findbullionprices.com\/blog\/gold-currency-heist-reported-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold &#038; Currency Heist Reported in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Canadian authorities have reported a gold heist at Toronto Peterson Airport. Various news outlets report the amount ranging in value between $14.8 and $22 million dollars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2023\/4\/21\/gold-heist-at-canadas-busiest-airport-estimated-at-14m\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Al Jazeera report<\/a>s a statement from the Regional Police said that a container carrying gold and other monetary items was stolen from a private warehouse after being unloaded from a plane at a nearby cargo facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The thieves are being compared by <a href=\"https:\/\/torontosun.com\/news\/local-news\/hunter-bombshell-100m-pearson-gold-heist-harkens-goodfellas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">some media outlets<\/a> to the characters in Hollywood stories based on mafia folklore such as the Henry Hill tales told through Goodfellas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While others distract from facts by referencing other historically <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-65350126\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">large gold heists in Canadian history.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest officially released figures estimate that 1.6 metric tons, the equivalent to 1,600 <a href=\"https:\/\/findbullionprices.com\/p\/1-Kilo-Gold-Bar-999-Fine\/\">kilos of gold<\/a> were included among the stolen stash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It did contain gold but was not exclusive to gold and contained other items of monetary value,&#8221; an RCMP Investigator told reporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Such a brazen burglary has authorities tight lipped about the other missing cargo. The Toronto Sun <a href=\"https:\/\/thepointsguy.com\/news\/toronto-airport-gold-heist-what-we-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claims to have had access to<\/a> confidential memos that suggest that the other cargo was a significant amount of currency bank notes as part of an intrabank transaction involving TD Bank.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is still no word on the airline involved or the origin or final destination of the missing cargo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2021, Canada was the 4th largest gold producer worldwide with roughly $21.3 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest officially released figures estimate that 1.6 metric tons, the equivalent to 1,600 kilos of gold were included among the stolen stash.<\/p>\n<p>Unofficially, some media in Canada also reports a large amount of cash was stolen in an unknown currency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[912,447,14,545,913],"tags":[48,914,393],"class_list":["post-1820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canada","category-gold-bars","category-gold-bullion","category-news","category-td-bank","tag-gold-bullion","tag-gold-heist","tag-gold-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Gold &amp; 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