Peel Regional Police have issued an arrest warrant for a man linked to the gold flight from Toronto Pearson Airport after he failed to appear in court.

Prasath Paramalingam, 35, of Brampton, was charged with accessory after the fact for helping Durante King-McLean, 25, in the airport heist, during which King-McLean allegedly made off with millions of gold bars gold in April 2023.

On Thursday, a police spokesperson confirmed to CityNews that an arrest warrant had been in effect since August after Paramalingam failed to show up for his court appearance. An arrest warrant arises from the authority of the judge.

PRP investigators confirmed in April that King-McLean and Paramalingam had been indicted in the United States for conspiracy to engage in international firearms trafficking.

US officials became involved in September 2023, months after the Pearson Airport gold theft, when one of the suspects, identified as King-McLean, was arrested for alleged motor vehicle offenses in Pennsylvania.

Police determined that King-McLean, who fled the scene on foot, was in the country illegally. Responding officers searched his rental vehicle and found 65 firearms believed to be intended to be smuggled into Canada. Two of these firearms were fully automatic and considered machine guns under federal law, and 11 of them were determined to be stolen.

U.S. investigators accused Paramalingam of orchestrating King-McLean’s illegal entry into the United States and arranging financing for King-McLean to purchase the various firearms he obtained in Florida, Georgia and elsewhere. The U.S. Attorney’s Office later said Paramalingam was involved in the alleged gun trafficking with King-McLean and had conspired with the defendant since April 2023, around the same time as the gold theft of Pearson.

King-McLean is still under police custody in the United States, but remains wanted across Canada for charges related to the robbery.

Police called it the largest gold heist in Canadian history.

The stolen gold and currency were ordered from a refinery in Zurich, Switzerland, and transported in the hull of an Air Canada flight to Toronto. The gold and currency were then loaded onto a suspect’s truck after the suspect presented a fraudulent air waybill to warehouse workers who loaded the cargo onto his truck.