Authorities in India question suspect in Pearson gold heist following Fifth Estate investigation [Video]

Authorities in India, acting on information first reported by The Fifth Estate, have raided a home and questioned a key suspect wanted in connection with the theft of gold worth more than $20 million Cdn from Toronto’s Pearson airport. 

Officials from India’s Enforcement Directorate, which handles economic crimes and money laundering, visited an apartment rented by Simran Preet Panesar on Friday morning, according to local journalists.

Police in Canada say Panesar is a main figure in the theft of the gold from the Air Canada Cargo facility at the airport in April 2023. It is the largest gold heist in Canadian history.

Last week, The Fifth Estate revealed that Panesar, who resigned from Air Canada three months after the robbery, was living in an apartment on the outskirts of Chandigarh, in northern India.

“Our teams have reached [Preet Panesar’s] residence and are in the process of questioning him,” a senior Enforcement Directorate official told The Indian Express newspaper, which teamed up with …