Maple syrup heist Canada

The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld a $9 million fine for the thief in a 2012 maple syrup heist.

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Nearly 3000 tonnes of maple syrup was stolen in the so-called Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist.

The ruling overturns a decision by the Quebec Court of Appeal to reduce his fine to just C$1m - equivalent to what Vallières says he pocketed. The Canadian province produces almost three-quarters of the world's maple syrup. It was empty.

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The man behind a decade-old maple syrup heist will have to pay a C$9m (€6.5m) fine, Canada's top court has said, upholding an earlier ruling by a lower ...

Canada is the largest exporter of maple products, and Quebec holds the world's only strategic reserve of the sweet topping. Richard Vallieres, who was among the 16 people arrested by police, was found guilty of fraud, trafficking and theft and sentenced to eight years in prison and fined over C$9m by the Quebec Superior Court. A group of people in the province of Quebec siphoned off maple syrup worth over C$18 million from a reservoir and replaced it with water, before authorities discovered the robbery in 2012, in what has been dubbed the "great Canadian maple syrup heist".

The Supreme Court says Richard Vallières must pay a fine equal to the value of the stolen syrup. He has 10 years to pay the fine, failing which he will ...

The judges said Vallières did not prove at trial or on appeal that there was a risk of double recovery. The stolen syrup was worth more than $18 million, but Vallières said during his trial that he had sold it for $10 million and made a $1-million profit. The Supreme Court said Quebec’s Court of Appeal was wrong to reduce his fine to $1 million.