Simran Preet Panesar, one of the nine suspects in a $ 20 million gold list at Piercen Airport in Canada in April 2023, was reportedly returned to India, received a price of Rs 8.5 crore in several installments after returning to India, The Indian Express Have you learnt.
A few days after the report, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) raided and later filed an enforcement case report (ECIR) in the case.
The “evidence” collected from the seized telephone of Panesar received an important lead for the investigating agency, said that he and his wife reached Mohali after about three months of heir, after which they allegedly received large hawala payments.
To prevent Panesar from leaving the country, an ED has received a look out of a circular (LoC) and said, “Additional details of Gold Hist and his alleged role are waiting from Peel Regional Police, who is investigating the case in Canada.” Since the Billing Crime was committed in Canada, the ED has used Section 2 (1) (RA) of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), which relates to crimes with implications from across the border.
According to ED officials in Delhi and Chandigarh, their calculations indicate that Panesar allegedly received Rs 8.5 crore for Havildar Payment in several installments. In Chandigarh, a hawala operator was detected telephone calls and messages. Officials said that when the operator survived the dragnet, its employees have been questioned, and the diary has been confiscated with details of the alleged hawala payments and now it is an important evidence, the officials said. The Havildar was learned that running a medical store as well as the cover of the money exchange running the money exchange.
The suspected vehicle was used during the heir. (Photo Credit: Peel Regional Police)
It turns out that the Havildar Diary expanded the payment received from Canada, United States, Australia, Singapore and UK between November 2023 and February 2025. “While the diaries have given valuable details of the limit of hawla payments, how much the crime is difficult to pay until the Chief Havildar said.
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Earlier this week, the ED’s action was challenged in the Punjab and Haryana High Court on a judicial basis. Panesar’s lawyer, Damanbir Singh Sobit told The Indian Express“We have filed a writ challenging the information report of the enforcement case under the prevention of the Money Laundering Act. No crime has been committed in India, and no request for mutual assistance from Canada. Also, there is no evidence that he is a desired person in Canada.”
The lawyer said that he has just come to know that the circular (LoC) issued in the name of Panesar at Indian airports was seen, which they intend to challenge in court.
The ED discovered on 22 February this year, when the Indian Express tracked Panesar at its residence. At that time, Panesar refused to give the comments on any “record”, citing “legal reasons”.
Dacoity
The heir, described as the largest Canadian’s largest, weighed the 6,600 gold bars 400 kg and was stolen from the cargo facility of Piercene International Airport after being offloaded from Zurich flight. Subsequently, Panesar, who was acting as supervisors in the operation control of the cargo section, was described as one of the nine “suspects” in the case.
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Canada police reports described Panesar as “an air Canada employee, who discovered the upcoming shipment and identified” and “also manipulated the air cargo system to facilitate the physical removal of the container.”
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