Security company suing to get back the money it lost in the caper
Brink’s is suing Canada’s biggest airline for roughly $20 million for allegedly letting a thief walk into an Air Canada facility at Toronto’s Pearson airport and walk out with gold bars and cash.
The Miami-based security company is suing Air Canada to get back the money it lost in the caper, which went down this past spring.
According to court documents obtained by CBC News, on April 14th Brink’s was commissioned by two Swiss banks — Raiffeisen and Valcambi — to move more than 400 kilograms of gold, and $1,945,843 in U.S. bills, from Zurich to Toronto.
At the time, the value of the gold was just over 13.2 million Swiss francs, or almost $20 million Canadian at current exchange rates.
The cargo was loaded on to flight AC881, which departed Zurich at 1:25 in the afternoon local time on April 17 and arrived safely at Pearson at 3:56 in the afternoon, without incident.
The two cargo shipments — adorned with the words BANKNOTES and GOLDBARS — were offloaded from the plane about 20 minutes later and deposited at an Air Canada storage facility about an hour and a half after that.
That’s when things went awry, the lawsuit alleges. Ref