Accused Toronto airport gold heist gang turned on each other in nasty fight for loot - National Post
Parmpal Sidhu, who is accused in connection to the 2023 gold heist at Toronto's Pearson airport, outside court during his trial in Brampton, Ont., on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026. Photo by Peter Power/Postmedia NewsArticle contentWhile suspects in the Toronto airport gold heist were under intense, around-the-clock police surveillance, one of them franticly made increasingly angry and desperate phone calls chasing down money, feeling cheated and abandoned by his friends, court heard.
“It’s already falling apart,” a caller identified in court as Parmpal Sidhu said over the phone nine months after more than $22.5 million in gold bars and cash was stolen after arriving at Pearson airport on a flight from Switzerland.
As a police net tightened around them, suspects fled Canada, tried to dodge surveillance, hired expensive lawyers and viciously turned against one another, police wiretaps show.
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“Everybody’s on their own. Everybody’s worried about themselves,” he said in a call. “Everyone got money and I’m stuck here,” he said in another.
Sidhu was an Air Canada employee in the Pearson airport cargo warehouse from where the crate was stolen on April 17, 2023. He was arrested April 5, 2024, one of the first of nine men to be charged and the first to plead not guilty and face trial in the spectacular case. Only about a kilogram of the gold has been recovered.
His trial on Tuesday in Ontario Superior Court in Brampton, Ont., heard a handful of the thousands of wiretap recordings Peel Regional Police made in their probe.
“I am not paying 10 grand for this lawyer. I am going to make a f–king deal. I’m in my car. My other phone is here. It’s probably tapped. I got a tracker on my phone. I am fed up of the lies,” he said in a call.
“You guys literally threw me in the ditch. That’s what you did.
“I’ve been trying to get you guys to do the right thing. Nobody’s listening to me, and now I’m the one who’s getting all the f–king heat.”
The phone calls, by a voice identified by a Peel police officer as Sidhu’s, reveal a man facing a financial apocalypse. His credit cards were maxed; his American Express card had been declined; he took money out of his line of credit, “freaking out” his wife. He spoke of borrowing from his mother.
