http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2105909/500million-haul-sunken-Spanish-galleon-flown-Spain-ending-year-legal-battle-U-S-treasure-hunters.html?ITO=1490
Commodities like gold and silver gets pricier every day.
So...when a treasure trove of gold and silver coins...worth more than $500 million is involved...people can get nasty.
That's certainly the case with Peru.
It is asking American supreme court justice Clarence Thomas to stop the transfer of 17 tons of sunken treasure...discovered in 2007 and recovered by a Sarasota, Florida company...from the USA to Spain.
Spain fought long and hard in the courts to wrest the treasure from Florida's Odyssey Marine company...and the USA supreme court finally allowed the top secret transfer to Madrid.
In what's being described as...a last minute long shot...'hail Mary pass'...Peru says the gold was originally stolen by the Spanish from its lands centuries ago...and wants it back.
Popular Posts
- HUNGARY : Orban Rejects IMF Loan Conditions...Via Facebook.
- NETHERLANDS : Amsterdam To Build 'Scum Villages' For Annoying Neighbors.
- SERBIA / LIBYA : Are Serbian Mercenary Pilots Bombing Protestors In Tripoli?
- BRASIL: Expat Oil Workers Comfortable With Bureaucracy, Anti-Foreigner Feelings.
- COLOMBIA : FARC Narco/Oro Terrorists Kill 6 Police In Cauca; Families Of FARC Kidnap Victims Demand Info.
- COLOMBIA : 11 March UPDATE: 70 Fare Protesters Arrested; 5 Bogota Metro Stations Vandalized.
- UKRAINE: 24 Oct. UDATE: Officials Incinerating Stray Dogs In Euro 2012 Clean-up.
- COSTA RICA : Narco Shipments And Violence...Surging.
- BRASIL / USA : Bad Blood Brewing Over Surprise Plane Order Cancellation.
- BOLIVIA : 8 Dead, 36 Injured In Bus Accident Near Sucre.