**$100 Million Gold Heist At Canada's Biggest Airport - Goodfellas Meets Italian Job**
$100 Million Gold Heist At Canada's Biggest Airport - Goodfellas Meets Italian Job
The **Royal Canadian Mounted Police confirmed they are looking into a gold robbery** at Pearson International Airport, just outside Toronto.
At this point, it appears investigators have no idea who stole the gold and how it was removed. We have an idea...
**_“We are still trying to get accurate information on the heist,”_** an RCMP spokesperson said, declining to confirm how much gold is missing.
The Toronto Sun reported (https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/major-gold-heist-at-pearson-movie-plot-turns-reality-in-gta) earlier Thursday that **3,600 pounds of gold being moved through the airport had been stolen**.
That would be **worth around $105 million.**
Pearson is rated as one of the top 30 cargo airports in the world and **gold mined in Canada can travel through Pearson** on its way to customers around the world.
The newspaper said the theft was likely linked to organized crime, citing an unnamed police source.
The heist reminded The Sun reporters (https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/hunter-bombshell-100m-pearson-gold-heist-harkens-goodfellas) of Nick Pillegi’s iconic book Wiseguy (that Goodfellas was based on) in which his boss Paul Vario and underling James 'Jimmy the Gent' Burke "owned" JFK Airport because **several organized crime groups are known to have either people or allies placed at Pearson**. Monitoring their activities and controlling them is reportedly close to a full-time job.
> _“See, you gotta understand, we grew up near the airport. It belonged to Paulie.”_
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> _\- Henry Hill (Ray Liotta), Goodfellas_
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Burke and his hand-picked team hit JFK again on Dec. 11, 1978, with a $5.875 million robbery of cash and jails from Lufthansa. That caper was worth $24.4 million in 2021.
But, back to Pearson, right now, The Sun's Brad Hunter reports (https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/hunter-bombshell-100m-pearson-gold-heist-harkens-goodfellas)that **cops are being quiet**.
One thing appears clear - investigators don’t believe the gold was stolen in an attempt to fund terrorism.
If that was the case, protocols would have seen at least a partial shutdown of parts of the airport as soon as police or security officials became aware of the robbery and that didn’t happen.
Finally, The Sun notes (https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/major-gold-heist-at-pearson-movie-plot-turns-reality-in-gta)that **this isn’t the first major gold heist to happen out of Pearson.**
In 1952, ten boxes of gold were bound for Montreal but only four boxes showed up. That heist was valued at between $215,000 to $330,000 at the time or more than $3 million today.
Nevertheless, this is **one of the largest robberies in Canadian history**... from a supposedly secure facility... leaving nothing than a mystery behind.
Tyler Durden (https://cms.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden)Fri, 04/21/2023 - 06:55