In Puerto Rico, a crooked lawyer recently convinced people he alone held the secret to the lost riches of Jacinto Rosario. The Mystery Of The Missing Billions: The Hunt For Yamashita's Lost WWII We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Professor Ocampo noted "What makes me wonder is that for the past 50 years, despite all the treasure hunters, their maps, oral testimony and sophisticated metal detectors, nobody has found a thing. Yamashita treasure is the gold allegedly stolen in south east Asia by the Japanese army during WWII. But at the time of their near defeat, they had cleverly hidden them away in different countries especially in the South East Asian continents. A 75 kilo solid gold bar found in the Philippinesjust one of a very large hoard allegedly buried by the Japanese. Mystery over Ayrshire man's ID bracelet and belongings found by metal detector near Canadian lake. . The frenzied search for fabled treasure is an obsession that comes with a cost. Japan surrendered on the 15th of August 1945. Man Who Found Hidden Treasure in the Rocky Mountains Is Revealed. It was named after the Japanese general Tomoyuki Yamashita, dubbed as "The Tiger of Malaya", who conquered Malaya within 70 days from the British. [6][7] It is purported that many of those who knew the locations of the loot were killed during the war, or later tried by the Allies for war crimes and executed or incarcerated. Yamashita, so the story goes, was charged with constructing one such tunnel known as number eight somewhere in the Cagayan Valley in the northeast of the island of Luzon. It wasnt until 1988 that Roxas - now the head of the Golden Buddha Corporation that held the rights to dig for the treasure - sued the exiled former president and his wife Imelda in a Hawaiian state court for the theft of the Buddha and the gold from his house, as well as for false imprisonment and human rights abuses. I'm talking about the Yamashita Treasure, the Golden Buddha, and the everlasting Hawaii legal saga of Roxas v. Marcos. Former S & L Thai Restaurant is now Sam's Thai Cuisine. This alleged war loot is named after General Yamashita Tomoyuki, who was nicknamed the 'Tiger of Malaya'.
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