Thieves allegedly gained access to a secret code and other details and changed the delivery location, pulling off a remarkable international heist
In January 2020, a Quebec trucking company received an email with a secret code and instructions: It was to pick up US$10 million in silver ingots from a Montreal railyard, and take the valuable cargo to a warehouse.
The email had all the necessary information — the weight of the cargo, the correct container number and the secret code — so the silver was driven out of CN’s Montreal rail lot and to a LaSalle, Ont., warehouse.
And then it vanished — all roughly 18,000 kilograms of it. “This case has all the elements of an Agatha Christie whodunit,” wrote Kevin R. Aalto, a federal court judge, who dealt with case management questions to do with a resulting lawsuit.
It turns out the email was likely fraudulent. Thieves had allegedly gained access to the secret code and other details and changed the delivery location, pulling off a remarkable international heist.
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