[2][3][1] In the evening of Monday, April 17, a container which contained gold bars and foreign currency was offloaded off an inbound aircraft and transferred to an Air Canada holding facility at the airport where Air Canada staff were tricked by a forged shipping document to load it onto a getaway truck.

(Authors of a June 2024 CBC News article point out that oft reported figure is substantially inaccurate based on heist day international gold trading; the amount was "actually worth C$34.365 million in April 2023 and approaching C$41 million today... CBC News reached out to Brinks, TD Bank and Valcambi, the Swiss refiner, as well as Peel Police, to ask about the apparent discrepancy.

After being loaded, the truck travelled on Dixon Road, west on Highway 401, and then turned off into a rural area north of Milton.

[13] The forged shipping document was an altered copy of a genuine waybill for a container of seafood that had been picked up from the Air Canada holding facility on the prior day.

[14] Peel Regional Police inspector Stephen Duivesteyn said their team would investigate "all avenues" and described that the incident as "isolated" and "very rare".

[15] Peel Regional Police and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) would start a joint investigation dubbing it "Project 24K" with 24K meaning 24 gold karats.

Police described Archit Grover as a "longtime friend" of Parmpal Sidhu who worked at Air Canada Cargo at the time of the heist.

Prasath Paramalingam and Ammad Chaudhary allegedly helped Durante King-McLean cross the border into the United States after the heist.

[21] Following the theft, Brink's contacted Air Canada on April 27, 2023, to demand full reimbursement of the costs it sustained during the heist, but no response was received.

[9][1] On October 11, 2023, Miami-based Brink filed a CAD 20 million lawsuit against Air Canada for the negligent handling and care of the items which it was commissioned by Raiffeisenbank and Valcambi to manage.

They allege that Air Canada "failed to follow through with appropriate security measures, despite charging higher shipping rates for its 'secure service'.

Brink's retorted that it paid a premium for the shipment and that the waybill was marked with the words "banknotes", "gold bars" and "Special supervision is requested.