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Canada’s gold heist: Inside one of the biggest thefts in the annals of crime | CNN (amp.cnn.com)
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The largest gold heist in Canadian history was carried out with remarkable ease: A fraudulent shipping document for a load of farm-raised Scottish salmon was used to brazenly snatch $14.5 million in gold bars and nearly $2 million in bank notes

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[-] sbv@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

I enjoyed this overview in podcast form: https://thebigstorypodcast.ca/2024/04/19/how-the-cops-cracked-the-24m-pearson-gold-heist/

[-] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

It almost plays out like a movie, I was thinking Italian job.

Tbh though I hope these guys get tracked down especially for using the gold/money to buy and bring guns over the boarder.

[-] sbv@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I'm curious about the gun running. Apparently it's an unrelated crime. But still.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 month ago

Sounds like authorities had a pretty good suspicion who was involved for a long time before they could prove anything. I wonder how they developed their leads.

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