Olive oil bottles are seen in a supermarket in Rome, Friday, March 8, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Alessandra Tarantino
February 08, 2025 - 2:13 PM
Montreal police say over $1 million worth of olive oil was stolen after a delivery involving two transport companies in the city never arrived at its destination in Ontario .
Police say Transport Q-Trans had a contract to deliver more than 100 palettes of olive oil to an Ontario client, which did not receive the shipment as expected earlier this week.
Police say Transport Q-Trans had transferred the product to a second company in Montreal it hired to complete the delivery because it had special heated trailers to store the olive oil.
Transport Q-Trans reported the theft Wednesday and police say the second company is being investigated for possibly stealing the oil.
Montreal police spokesperson Jean-Pierre Brabant says police are reviewing security camera footage, but they have not found the missing oil or made any arrests so far.
The investigation is ongoing.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 8, 2025.
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