Der Rädelsführer des 22-Millionen-Dollar-Goldraubs am Flughafen Toronto wird wegen seines spektakulär einfachen Plans zu vier Jahren Gefängnis verurteilt
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/arsalan-chaudhary-sentenced-toronto-pearson-airport-gold-heist
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>Chaudhary’s lawyer, Harval Bassi, asked for a four-year sentence minus time his client has spent in pretrial custody, while the Crown prosecutor, Jelena Vlacic, asked for seven years. Judge Shannon McPherson of the Ontario Court of Justice accepted four years minus 174 days (on a two-for-one basis) that Chaudhary spent in custody prior to sentencing.
It’s a quirk of Canadian law that the sixth largest gold theft in modern history and the largest ever in Canada brings a charge of theft over $5,000, to which Chaudhary pleaded guilty to. In return, his other charges — two counts of possession of property obtained by crime, and conspiracy to commit an indictable offence — were dropped.
Of course some softie judge went for the low end. What a messed up country.
*Canada might as well broadcast to the world – hey come take your shot at robbing us blind and if you get caught we’ll pat you on the head and treat you with kid gloves. And it’s not like the gold was recovered or anything. This could be looked at as a good investment.
The Mint should issue a series of commemorative coins to celebrate this heritage moment.
Will be out in 2 years with time served and parole
It’s disgusting how little time this asshole got. These sentences are getting so insultingly low and they only managed to find 90k of the missing gold, and a bunch of it was used for a gun smuggling crime. This pondscum should be in jail for _life_.
What the fuck is our judicial branch doing? Are they really _this_ unconcerned about how enraged the public is getting?
Big F for Judge Shannon McPherson
When Netflix special
Ok so the message that’s being broadcast is take your shot at a multi million dollar theft? Best case you get $22 million and worst case you get 4 years free room and board?
Four years in jail and they get to keep the proceeds less $90,000.
$22,000,000 – $90,000 = $21,110,000
$21,110,000 / 4 years = $5,277,500 / year
That’s CEO level pay. I should go into the gold heist business.
4 years lol would have gotten upset if it wasn’t a Swiss holding company’s gold.
lol 4 whole years?
Here’s Canada giving away jail sentences that are a joke. What would be really funny is if he did it again.
He will surely make some new unwanted friends in there. But all that was probably factored in ahead of the surrender.
4 years? LOL
You’d think he committed murder with that sentencing! /s
Canadian jail sentences are pretty much a „please don’t break the law again“.
What a joke.
Canada is not a serious nation
4 years for $22 mil ( minus the 90K found ) >> IF he served the **whole time**, works out to $15,006.85 stolen per day to serve.
*So if I need $60K for a new car, i can get that for just 2 weekends sentence ? /S*
Why bother spending 4 years in school and a life working when you can just steal a lifesavings and be out in 4 years
Who gives a damn about gold theft? Jealous people. Stay mad.
I’ll do 4 years to be a millionaire when I get out.
This is despicable. Our judges are insane.
„Even though the load was valued at $22.5 million, a driver showed up, presented an Air Canada waybill for a shipment of seafood that had already been picked up the day before, and have an Air Canada employee whirl the high-value container onto his truck by forklift.
The snatch was so smooth it wasn’t noticed until three hours later, when Brink’s security personnel arrived to collect the valuable container and Air Canada employees couldn’t find it.“
Canada’s genuinely the best place to be if you’re a piece of shit criminal.
Wild how the threshold for major/minor theft is still set at $5k, no?
I’m not sure how long „theft over/under $5000“ has been used as a charge but it seems crazy to me that in 2026, $5000 is the baseline.
Don’t get me wrong, 5k is a fair bit of money, but shouldn’t there be a different charge for someone stealing $22M in a gold heist vs a shoplifter stealing a designer handbag?
That’s worth over $84Millon today.
Wow crime pays, I’m in the wrong profession!