Gold Heist Mastermind Jailed

0:00It's April 8th. This is Calgary News today, powered by AI. The mastermind behind Canada's biggest gold heist just got slapped with four years in prison. Arsalan Chaudhary, a 43-year-old from Mississauga, pleaded guilty to stealing over $22 million worth of gold bars from. Toronto's Pearson Airport, back on April 17th, 2023. That shipment, nearly 400 kilograms of pure gold, fresh from Switzerland, vanished from an air-Canada cargo spot in a blink. It was a slick inside job using a fake waybill for seafood that had already been picked up. A driver rode up, flashed the papers, and an employee forked the container right onto his truck. Nobody clocked in missing for three hours until brinks showed up to grab it. Chaudhary coordinated with the driver, over 50 calls leading up, then had the gold melted down in a Mississauga jewelry shop basement in two, untraceable bracelets. Cops cracked it with a fingerprint on the paperwork and seized debtless splitting about

1:0010 million in proceeds. Half the goal's value after Shady, sales. He bolted to Dubai, but surrendered at Pearson in January after Cops tipped him off. Five accomplices nabbed in Canada, including two air-Canada workers, and one driver's locked up in the U.S. for guns muggling funded by the loot. Two fugitives are still out there. In India, the other dodging a U.S. warrant tied to the same arms plot, leaving this epic paper far from wrapped up.