TORONTO — A person who admitted his function within the large gold and money heist from Toronto’s Pearson airport has been sentenced to 4 years in jail.
Court docket paperwork present that 44-year-old Arslan Chaudhary was sentenced in a Brampton, Ont., courthouse on Wednesday and given 40 years to pay again $22 million in restitution.
Chaudhary was arrested earlier this yr as he flew in from Dubai and he was charged in what police have referred to as the biggest gold heist in Canadian historical past.
Police have stated that on April 17, 2023, a flight arriving from Zurich, Switzerland carried a cargo cargo containing 400 kilograms of gold — valued at greater than $20 million on the time — and about $2.5 million in overseas forex, and the gadgets have been reported lacking from a separate space of Pearson airport the next day.
A number of suspects have since been arrested within the case and as of earlier this yr, two others — together with a former Air Canada worker — have been nonetheless at massive.
Court docket paperwork present that Chaudhary pleaded responsible to theft over $5,000 and his jail sentence features a credit score of 174 days, a few of which have been beforehand spent in custody.
Police have stated that they consider the suspects melted the stolen gold and offered it to fund unlawful actions, together with the acquisition of unlawful firearms.
Investigators have been capable of seize no less than one kilogram of gold believed to be from the theft, in addition to smelting tools and several other hundred thousand {dollars} in forex.