National Geographic - $400 Million Dollar Emerald

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National Geographic - $400 Million Dollar Emerald
 but there's an ugly facet to
the lucrative gem trade
a lot of my life is selling beauty of
the few the powerful prospectors dream
about nothing the ultimate emerald
its kinda gamblers feeling that you can
come out here and maybe get lucky and
find out
special stone mode one special stoner
has exposed the worst facets of human
nature
it's a cartoon-like caper have alleged
crimes
corruption and incompetence
this is the legend surrounding a giant
gemstone
that promise don't Aldrich's only to be
a contrast to many captivated
by its ill-fated earlier
home
a record-breaking bonanza emerged from
the gloom other brazilian rain
in 2001 mom
I dig in the eastern state about here
exposed a rock
in bed with a massive emerald crystals
film
from that moment on the glittering
jewels will become mired in greed
one of the protruding stones was as
thick as a man's thigh
things
the miners had never seen such a mother
lode
but knew they'd found a fortune
it weighed more than a third of its own
a stunning excessive more than 180,000
carrots
upon during Amaral's the room
what happened next is the subject of
conjecture
a story that's become blurred amid the
show map
have a staggering stoner to thwart an
ambush by bandits
the mine is apparently loaded their
riches onto a mule carts
but even then the giant gemstones
appeared to bring bad luck
me
it seems to multi-million-dollar mule
train was attacked by some kinda big
can't
up some say the miners had to carry that
treasure out by hand
others say they hold it down by truck
whatever happened
the Giants emerald made it onto the
streets a Brazil's largest city
Sao Paulo
do
mmm on
it was claimed to be the largest emerald
ever found worth some four hundred
million dollars
if but at least eight people have
claimed it belongs to them
ok
that's
part of this
delighting assorted and surreal story
the Bahia emerald
the allure Evanston for June and
attracted a colorful cast of characters
Beach hoping to stake a claim
they included two Brazilians
who apparently unveiled the Emerald to
american businessman Tony Thomas
in Sao Paulo what happened next
has been the subject of a bitter legal
battle Thomas said he was brought to the
viewing by fellow American entrepreneur
Kenneth gonna so who claim to Cologne
the mine
where the massive emerald was found
you inside
I'm museum
can connect so said that Thomas when
been owners ecstatic
why he was having a shirt
more
home
0 Sony Thomas said the Brazilians offer
to sell him the Emerald rock
for sixty thousand dollars
that he agreed and would come back to
pick it up
and send them the money from the US day
but both the Brazilians and can connect
so denied that any such offer was made
or accepted
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Sony thomas et a picture of him holding
the stone backed his claim that he
bought it
the photo was submitted in court don't
want the alleged owners really sell a
gigantic German
from ES sixty thousand dollars the mood
it was only the start to the story
that's as lurid as the brilliant green
gem itself
emeralds attract all kinds of attention
and every stone has a story to tell
diamonds may be forever
but a perfect emerald is worth much more
with the finest green gems
mine in Colombia the small regional news
hour
produces the world's most valuable
emeralds discerning buyers
nowhere to go I'm and n roll obsessive
yes experience instinct and Akinori
are essential back in the antibody no no
ficking
we picking you mustn't Gazeta the most
sought after storms
a deep in Cal lack aryan transparency
and large in proportion
sigh as much as in the Emerald business
such terms a rap because a combination
of specific geological events
is needed to create them colombia is
unique in having such a geological
history
tectonic forces turned agency flows into
mountains
sedimentary rock fractured under huge
pressure
and superheated water carried minerals
that leach down to the rock
those minerals in 2d/3d relevance
essential for the formation an emerald
crystals
bonus formations have iron pyrites all
fool's gold
camps i an ounce of Colombian emeralds
resulting in a unique
natural fluorescence 0
the Bahia emerald is from Brazil it's
not as fine
but it is very big and the
but here world as a geologic specimen is
worth
way more than if you were to facet out
the
gemstones a geologic specimens resonates
with a certain type of person I'm not
that type of person but
so a lot of people that they just want
the biggest
even though it's not not necessarily the
best
big was beautiful for american
businessman Tony Thomas
0 he claimed to abort the Bahia emerald
for sixty thousand dollars
who 0 Inc
he also said that the huge gem was
hidden in a carriage
in the Brazilian capital Sao Paulo just
while the Sun is threw a surprise party
for him at a local hotel
and even presented him with a bill of
sale just
but a family accident back home
interrupted the alleged Ponzi
Tony Thomas a story that while I'm at
that party
I get a phone call from my wife and
I tell her or method lol bell tower
celebrating
Thomas testified at trial
that his wife had said you need to come
home media
our son broke his arm
you need to come back home
they get on a plane and they go back to
San Jose that night
so we are leaving behind from what I
understand that he had a family
emergency
back in the States and he figured he
would return later to create up the
stone have it shipped
he leaves the Emerald he admits I he
never takes possession of it he leaves
at
under a piece of canvas on a dali in an
unprotected building
them the businessman once on such claims
that when the stone wasn't delivered to
the US
he called Brazil to find out why he says
the Brazilian said
never gonna believe this this they got
stolen
turned shipment and Tony thomas' story
is
the Civil what we do black people do
anything it's brazil they're never going
to go after this thing and
you waste your time and he said well
look I don't think
don't think I can do anything about it
that was 2002
and in 2002 he believes that this rock
has been stolen
and therefore he forgets about this rock
bid was just the start of a smashing
story
over seemingly cast stone that brought
nothing but trouble
I'm
on behind a secured or even exporters
office in Columbia
the germs on just one sable well worth
many millions
half-a-million hundred thousand dollars
over one million dollars he's in this is
just a Monday afternoon
right there's 100,000 though million
dollars
fuzzy async amigos colette
see 100 carats at 15,000 per carat
wholesale price
is one and a half million dollars dating
20,000 cared
minimum
three minutes to you for stuff cuz I'm
going on for months the sixty thousand
dollars
reason to 4.2 so one of these you could
buy a car or even though
so two or three house from a concert
this is the true
use of money to buy something beautiful
and eternal like a gemstone
course you need to survive in heat can
be sheltered
beyond that gemstones I
of some of the world's finest emeralds
come from a small area no bigger than a
small city
columbia's famed news 0 morning region
is only 140 kilometers from the capital
bogota
but it takes seven hours to drive that
the stone soul to a privileged pampered
elite
are extracted from Tampa dirty
excavations
deep below the ground you're right so we
have permission to go in
according to 11 warehouse and we goin
three or four bus the for a hike or
problem great majority of a dog feeling
is Heather Ohio on iris BCS he insisted
on that one was telling me about
the bonanza 25,000 carrots
available to work encountered within 50
yards from here at at another mine
called me Mary out
and fair right here with a share of that
goes straight down that's the entrance
to their title
and build they're going down 90 meters
already
who
and from 90 meters will be walking about
a hundred meters
in either direction there's two titles
and two gangs have workers down
underground what he was explaining was
that there
they're looking for Cal site being so
they're going through a lot of dark soft
shale and shale is what underlies
all of these mountains here and it's a
sedimentary rock but thats
what the emeralds comments is that this
is another and so does
if therefore land of he doesn't
communicate with a thought no sync went
on me
that when a tenant think I am it's only
cuz with an ETA not sign up on the left
I don't know what to say I for other I
was kinda of
t know if there's a problem these things
like we are not speaking with %uh
and I'm highly will not be a dog vs
mason CNN
BWB a Nick in the AM it and I'm not okay
love the way you know that point
not kidding I'm occupy time with I think
you go to soap into
in this case a promising vein Senderos
into a rocky ribbon
too small to support quality emeralds
but they would continue to chase it
in the hope it would lead to a thick
motive glittering green gems
nice he is not that big just something
like what players
blankets navajo if if you look at all my
fun just the pussy limiting that on that
either causing went and picked up from
weatherbeeta with enough I think what
the hunt up black I think with an ETA
the rock faces surrounding such veins
a blasted out piece by piece in the hope
that the ribbon of Wight Council rights
will get wider
leading to Emerald encrusted rock put
dynamite blasting
is relatively crude a vein the changes
direction
could be accidentally blown up ruining
any animals inside it
this is the mystery a ov emerald geology
is a
emeralds are not in any predictable
place you can only guess
where they probably will be but then you
just have to start
digging holes and the the shafts and
tunnels that go underground
for those mines literally perforate the
hills
am the decision to go to the left or to
the right or a first down
is really not made from geologists
it suspended from the men that were
underground using intuition
to find ample this
fund or safer than ever gonna look at my
second out in front of going to yes I've
got a message and services have all
4320 I mean not me diffusing into
intimate contact Amanda
cute of putting in my grandson of a
Kenyan
the someone say it and says we're taking
the money it was he said
difficult and I'm about one more to
levels are under arrest
the mere mortals that do the hard work a
forgotten
as the stones are cut and polished to
adorn the delicate fingers and Max
have the ultra-rich who inhabit another
world
far from the Grafton growing above the
Colombian mines
the Brazilian Bahia emerald
was inferior to colombia is fine gems
but it was the largest in the world
with but after brokers couldn't find the
right buyer
it ended up in the United States that's
going to take a little bit more
to get this stone soul because it
required such specialized firearms
somehow get never deleted with the
glamour associated with other animals
I 1 points the Bahia emerald was hidden
in abandoned gas station in San Jose
while on the gems were snapped up in
exclusive Julez
the Bahia emerald was formed on eBay but
didn't make it 75 million reserve
and another potential sale was destined
to drown
in an infamous disaster this is like in
April
make 2005 this is placed in a
be closed bank vaults I
to the old bank it's barely got like you
know vaults
three floors down for whatever not
anticipating
Hurricane Katrina is gonna come hit
want government it but the city under
water when Hurricane Katrina hit
the vault in the stone for under 16 for
the water about two months
there's no dispute it be here was in the
water for some period of
the call it out not enough scuba dive
spit or whatever
protocol for history for a for wanna
rock
the promise of quick riches
drives droves of treasure hunters who
sift through the tailings piles up
outside the Colombian emerald mines
the buyers
or as Morro dos wat nearby traditional
white towels draped over the shoulders
the tailings are washed downstream
where others hope to hole up germs
missed by the mine s up River
people in the river digging
and they come back day after day because
a they know a brother or a cousin or
friend that found a nice big
emerald that that change their life and
it's very random because the specific
gravity emerald
is only to put 67 so the emeralds are
not
much heavier than the little rock
surround them so there they don't gather
in any place
the the emeralds are just scattered
throughout so you have people taking
randomly and and they'll find random
animals
he said he finds things from fifty to a
hundred dollars he knows people with
found things up to about
a value of six seven hundred dollars
went basically everybody hears here
because they found something
chief editor Cano I'll in which a panel
that no no but I am a pizza party
that buddy right bicep with this you can
buy
lunch and dinner it's not worth much but
around here it keeps people going
we will listen your particularly if the
wind let me know that swept the house
como esta he would have avoided them
which would be a nice
he well I think weather feed us
columbia's lucrative mines have also
attracted criminals
especially during the unrest in the
nineteen eighties Civil War
emeralds are easy to smuggle and for a
boon for corrupt officials and organized
criminals
who used them to launder money
mmm
me wall Louis like Africa's blood
diamonds
that listed proceeds from Colombia's
animals also helped fuel a spree of
mayhem and murder
I'm Douglas her I was the washington
post bureau chief
ins Latin America from the late 1980s
and 1990s
absolute chaos had multiple armies out
there everyone was started
fending for themselves and at the same
time you had the person I think that
comes out said who serve Rockies
multiple currents together in a really
unusual fashion
the mind
the night
Victor karan's a controlled the moves
are region
with a private army that became the
largest paramilitary force
in the country those who could afford to
form their own armies and Pixar Cars
answer was one of those who can afford
to get is ample money
get his drug money and he was able to
arm a groove two or three thousand men
that could protect his interests against
not only the fark but against the state
and against any other armed after that
wanted to commit
so it lasted for rough significant
period time several years and this
really nasty war
in in Columbia the world wars were
always incredibly brutal
and the use really grotesque ways of
communicating that if you came into
their territory this is what would
happen to you
being not much attention was paid to it
at the time because
there was a place for the press could
get too easily casa controlled access in
and out of there so you could just
decide
ask a visit occurs on says mines this
weekend because you you weren't likely
to come out alive
no sacando Korea I'm what this total get
my phone died
be yeah I get a ride then I met a guy
will not get my mail guys eat what I
keep telling
yeah if someone so tienda which I'm
yugoslav my paddle
or not there was
dark days coming to Columbia in those
years
was intense and and because there was a
war going on
out in the AM reminding reaching as
nature would have it during those
darkest years
amazingly the Costco as mine was putting
out
this beautifully saturated material that
we could buy here as wholesalers for
eight hundred dollars per carat and sell
all day long up in Los Angeles for
eleven or twelve hundred dollars a care
and so
%uh several dealers the few hours they
were coming to Columbia

word many we kept coming at moving
animals because it was
good business but we would comment our
friends would tell us well
so-and-so that shot again or but we kept
coming we we had to do business
I'm just breaking the ice here what i'm
looking for some is way better
greener and more transparent with
media's the love a green mineral
can win for my G and Mike
continues to drive a business that
brings huge profits for the middleman
this is a two thousand cuts
exporters pay one percent back to the
local community
around 580 millions face
this is the costs we take to make a
necklace
it takes a train going to see a necklace
in your own cut stone
and it has one stone here would yield
media for five carat stone a stone here
that if the cutter is good this would
yield
a nice four-carat stone that might to
bring some profit
so it's kind of a sport and it's kind of
a business emerald cussing is an art
that concern a dole rock into a rich
jewel
a skilled cutter wheel trim away the
floors
creating a sparkling gem that will catch
the light
and the %ah reserve a rich buyer willing
to spend a fortune
every gemstone has that hidden Glendive
beauty that
only a good cutter can bring out more
than two-thirds of a stone can be lost
to create a finished jam
lost jewels iraq a matching Pat
even rarer the emerald earrings that
adorned Angelina Jolie at the Oscars
ceremony
well worth two and a half million
dollars
mmm but big isn't always beautiful
brokers just couldn't find a buyer for
the massive Bahia emerald
the gigantic Gemma unearthed in Brazil
was back on the ground stored in a
variety of hiding spots
while dealers do that onto an alleged
billionaire appeared with the deal
that seemed too good to be true
more good that big gun was brought in to
find a buyer for the biggest emerald in
the world
the seemingly high-flying businessman
Larry Biegler
was allegedly promised a whopping fifty
percent commission
by a pro love 2008 day
the think they got a buyer at a Florida
who's represented by guiding
check for them
Larry bigler come off as a charming
educated gentlemen
job someone have high net worth the Type
A personality you would expect that an
individual that level
he a bigler hit it off
well ambiguous as listener I think you
can sell it
better and I can sell a Jerry I'm not
been successful
so tell you what I'm going do
a sign it and sell it to you Jerry and
then if you sell it
you give me fifty percent of what you
Jerry get
you can't keep the other 50 percent
Larry approached me with the opportunity
to sell the Bahia emerald I am
which I had jumped that and he was
jumping into a dubious deal
Larry Biegler seem genuine an
entrepreneur has elegance an impressive
as the Bahia emerald itself
home
when larry showed up larry had a manila
folder with him
and in the manila folder was the
ownership documents which signed
all ownership of the Bahia emerald over
to me
and dumbfounded that I've never met this
man before my life why would he sign
over $372 million dollar stone to me
larry's explanation was that is
extremely impressive my ability
to negotiate deals my trustworthiness
and who I was as a businessman
so jerry says and I think I can sell it
he was impressive time no reason to
doubt who he was and who he said he was
Larry Baylor barely presents himself
has a very wealthy individual with a lot
of contacts I he had
shown himself to be a billionaire very
wealthy man married into the rockwell
family
our agreement would be if you sell the
system will divided 50 by 50
I'm not going to back away from and the
deal seemed even sweeter
when the Emerald was unveiled same in
california and Folsom
as a first time I saw the stone and it
was a
spectacular same something I've never
laid eyes on before
be like stumbling onto King Solomon's
Mines
chrome know all the treasure movies you
see on TV is nothing in comparison
to walk into a room and having this
thing
just open itself to you it was
massive things a hundred maybe 1000
carrots
840 pounds emerald same here
the front of me
for Jerry in Larry bigler are also doing
other business deals together okay and
Larry so scary I got and I want
go out and sell I had a lot of
individuals that were interested in
purchasing diamonds
a so jerry is out there kinda it's a
front man for Larry
home and Larry big where disclosed me he
on several diamond mines in Brazil and
in Africa
of I support sell some stones with cell
sometimes while we're still working
the Bahia deal
diamond buy a kit Morrison was about to
be drawn into the Bahia emerald saga
and this guy named kit Morrison who
lives in
Idaho here is that there's some diamonds
for sale that you know he would think if
I'm
if I buy it for axe and I can sell it at
a higher price so I can make some money
first time I spoke to get more soon he
was on the market for buying diamonds
brought the diamond deal to me which I
had interest but they needed
a certain amount of money up front
Terrys as well
you have to put I million-and-a-half
two million dollars down on the table
for my partner
my undisclosed partner where bigler to
show you the diamonds
he said hell no by when do you have I'm
not gonna put up
a certain amount of money without having
Clara la said
let me offer you a potential solution
here I
do you own the world's largest animals
jury says I on his BM rolled
we can use that as an asset
so cherry at some point in this
negotiation process tells
kid lesson if you put it million 95 on a
table or
million three which is what it ends up
being if the diamonds don't come
throw I will convey the ownership rights
at the BMO
to you
when I first saw the Emerald it soon
great be crated almost looks like you
know indiana Jones Craig Wright
but is it something that you don't
expect even though you see it in
documentation you hear about you talk
about it
it's it's it's something to see
certainly all the wonders of the world
the
yeah I guess you could say it does give
you chills away eyes on a be standing in
the same room with
so kids as a write up with the money
down which he did
1.3 million
and could I miss it show up
the data stones are supposed to be
picked up they didn't show
I can get larry bigler on the farm larry
had completely dropped out of sight
the brilliance of the Brazilian gem seem
to blind even the most experienced
operators
the gym business is riddled with
potential pitfalls even genuine deals in
the Colombian Jamaica removes 0
must be conducted with caution this is
one of my regular stops in the general
mining region this the plaza cent I love
moves over town square
and every day there's people here
selling animals
not just to sell to
foreigners like me or buyers from bogota
they sell to each other
think they can easily adjusted
in the United States nobody understands
rough animals
and Colombian can look at it a rough
emerald
and start to get intoxicated by the
Emerald fever
the maybe you can make a nice facets to
know that
sell it and make a lot of money of
him
dino Morea as a good this month
thinks
with it or not but its CA real risk or
see if the UNIX
well as those PS with I
study a bit of I think they are worth
seven
million pesos and not much more that's a
four thousand dollars
is on the move season what is it me or
does it but %uh oh and there's a little
bit
remember that nobody single again
tonight but I've I
with Alberto if you have the time both
I'm yeah I
know if if if you have a value I
like I say it's it's a a business based
on human relationships and face to face
negotiations
and how much desperation do they have to
get the money I don't know
and it happens and I only have eight
million
vessels in my bag anyhow so I'm getting
up against
my own little barrier here its
his the movies when I go to Columbia
and hey tens of thousand dollars for a
parcel of stones
judgment has to be right on time
I
known all that glitters is gold that was
especially true for those drawn into a
complicated deal
surrounding the Bahia emerald it was put
up as collateral for a diamond deal
huh
when the money was paid but the diamonds
didn't turn up
the supposed ownership of the Emerald
was transferred
mom the diamonds were originally offered
a biatch mine owner Larry Biegler
but when the germs fail to show he
disappeared
no communication whatsoever
ship more same on one side is now
calling me saying
what's going on arm holding the bag I've
got 1.3 million dollars in this man's
money that's already been distributed
and a nightmare in front of me
Larry B glass suddenly resurfaced with
the sensational nightmare story every
zones
file I get a call from my regular in
distress call on his cell phone
I can't talk long allow me to make one
phone call and the next day we hear this
story that he was picked up by
Brazilians
and he was kidnapped I'm thinking I'm
going to take these guys out
I'm going to find them I'm gonna save
larry
to use for Fairfax Angeles County
Sheriff's Department the victim said the
kidnappers told them they would reflect
five hundred thousand dollars to set him
free the victim said he would be able to
give it
after it completed the sale IBM cluster
the Brazilian supposedly drop wary of
iti
Airport in Washington and where does he
fly dis
to Las Vegas to stay at Circus Circus
doesn't fly home to tell people he's OK
embraces family through this tragic
kidnapping
he goes to to Las Vegas in and hangs his
hat tricks to speed up the Circus Circus
so things weren't adding up nothing was
adding up
once again this park love the world's
largest emerald
home brought nothing but strife I'll
im
would be
mom
good
the whole world comes to Bogota Colombia
for
emeralds Jim dealing can deliver sky
high profits
but legitimate deals the results of hard
work
a long chain of supply usually hidden
from view
mom
jim miller's make a point to being low
profile so
I mean camera crew following is
prove it awesome
of
we're going to the Emerald Trade Center
which is 10
four major buildings that are completely
full available cover several dealers in
Emerald brokers
were one stuff up the ladder here we're
going to see the professional
Jim brokers who move this industry the
Colombian capital above its alright as a
commercial center for the Emerald tried
who love the precious stones mind or
scavenged from rivers and tailings
end up there four-story
go for a CIA here this committee room
here does that does is a good thing
about this
to stop for
look at how the averell goes down the
sides it's not worth very much but it's
a pretty stuff
that's quite rare whenever there's a
recession
they say overrun how can you do business
unit luxury business selling gemstones
and I got no animals are not a luxury
EMALS are a necessity if
any man falls in love been has to cover
for some dumb mistake he made
he needs gemstones its a necessity
it's not a luxury month
I'm gonna look at these upstairs in the
buying office cuz I I might by 10
guy is the real action
and the power and for me the real
intoxication
is upstairs in the buildings where the
emerald exporters are in the Emerald
dealers
of
no
the new family
only has his 11-year I think emerald
negotiation is
very much like poker you cannot give
away
how eager you are to
have something you what's the owner the
stoned to think that
it was an afterthought that you want to
buy that stone
you don't want him to know that you're
like a lover
inside your melting inside you're
desperate you hope the phone rings you
hope to
the Valentine comes a Muni mean you
took place in europe you're thinking
about that stone constantly until you
own
so to happen festivities
might offer two and a half million pesos
needs to grow up a little bit the new
bid was sealed in a traditional wife
the broker would discuss the bed with
the owner she left carrying about a
quarter of a million dollars with
animals in a canvas bag
well
where them
way stymies way home
she was one of many middleman who take a
consulate chain have tried
that leads from the mine to the jewelry
shop home
the end buyer based on da line
home
on animals are really about fashion that
allure that beauty
that you'll see in the finest jewelry on
them wealthiest people in the world
all about power and pure romance
well
well
but power and romance was in short
supply for those snared
in yet another deal gone sour for the
Bahia emerald
I'll
one would think that this I love the
world's largest emerald
would be straightforward but
self-proclaimed entrepreneur
and broke a Larry Biegler was one of
many claiming ownership
Larry hears about it and
thinks you get ripped off
Larry called me immediately started
blowing up my phone
where you can move the stone that's my
style I said it's not your style
we lost it we had to move it we're gonna
sell settle this debt
Larry goes in the police department and
said okay
that was mine they stole
and Larry shows a bill of sale that
stops away right has shown
has convinced to Jerry verbal attack
grab a major crimes division
take this very seriously Z you know a
couple hundred million dollars Tom
the LAPD active has at the stone had
been stolen
Kip Moore said was accosted by the LA
sheriff's department at his home in
Boise Idaho won the LA sheriff's
department fly up there and
unbelievable active aggression knocked
on the door
they knew I wasn't there and they talk
to my wife
they were certainly aggressive in the
measure that they took to procure the
asset
where they got the authority to be that
aggressive into
across state lines I don't know when I I
don't care to comment
there years old
of or they wanted to
get the animal they want to take it with
them on that day
my wife call me I call my attorney
you ran over there him i sees a kids to
go to jails are threatening to put him
and myself in jail
just given the stone
the we got the ownership documents we
have the wire transfer
were legal so let them take the stone
will go to California Court
it'll be a short thing but
the local media in Vegas has gone crazy
the
media circus you know it was going crazy
over to spank world
I'm known to us there were several other
parties where they felt
they have an ownership interest in this
town like
bean sprouts that come out of the ground
we have five different claimants
to this Brock up comes Thomas have no
work
says wait a second I know it was seven
or eight years ago but I'd
fight this thing back in 2001 this
I'm
the title that he says to the stone was
burned up in a house fire
apparently sent by me
you know I burn his house down with the
intention of destroying his bill sale
when we took a look at the testimony
Thomas it was
it was almost all after here's a person
the claims that the Holy
invest in this year that he has up
purchasing the world's largest jewel
is a vanished bill of sale that vanishes
and a house fire
and an insurance company has moved
within 48 hours to bulldoze the house
and his bill of sale is a fireproof
vault
and he never gets back in time to check
the bald
Harry from beginning to end
that's a very shaky story the legal
battle continues to drag on
in appeal after appeal five parties
claim ownership
the Bahia emerald is now worth millions
of dollars more
because it has a big nationwide story
behind it if everybody will just keep
quiet
maybe ten times would go away
and maybe we'll all be done with this
but no answer to that weird store
if you think about it this was like this
was the thing
you know this was the great thing but
everybody had a creative way of trying
to attach themselves to the Stoneham
and when you find the ultimate treasure
I don't believe there's any stopping
almost any individual
from wanting to grab hold it keep it
there was greed that was
this kinda losing out of a lot of people
a combination of that
and I think remarkable comedy of errors
I personally think stones cursed so
fickle up into pieces everybody gets a
little bit nastiness and not every one
person gets double
get enough
the Emerald worth hundreds of millions
of dollars
lies hidden in a police false waiting to
be claimed again
perhaps it was better left in the dark
earth
have a Brazilian mining anyway that's a
story
the Phantom everything fantastic