Canada's largest gold heist of 2023: 'Fugitive' Simran Preet Panesar can't leave India; 'If he's hiding, he's hiding in plain daylight'

Former Air Canada employee Simran Preet Panesar is a wanted man in Canada in connection with the 2023 Pearson gold heist but his lawyer says he can't come to Canada because India won't allow him to leave. In 2023, more than $20 million worth of gold was stolen from Toronto Pearson International Airport in what went down in history as Canada's largest gold heist. On April 17, 2023, a cargo shipment arrived at Pearson from Zurich containing approximately 400 kg of .9999-pure gold. After the shipment was unloaded and kept at a location on the airport premises, it went missing within a day. Investigators launched Project 24K to bust the heist and nine people were charged.It was revealed that insiders were hand in glove with the heist and a former Air Canada employee, Simran Preet Panesar, was 'wanted' in Canada. As he was reported to be in India, Canada requested Panesar's arrest and extradition from India.Simran Preet Panesar can't leave India, report saysA National Post report said that Panesar can't return to Canada to face trial because Indian authorities won't let him leave over suspicions that he brought his loot to India to secretly sell. National Post obtained documents from In...