The 80-year-old novelist and her husband could face the trial in France over alleged stealing and Illegal sale of gold bars taken from the shipwreck from the 18th century.
Investigators say Eleonor “Gay”, Court’s goal and her husband, Filip Courter, helped a French diver Golden bars that he is stole from the shipwreck before the decade. The couple denies that every knowledge of the error has.
Le Prince de Cony, a French ship traded with Asia, sank from the bank of Brittany in 1746. years. Brodolomic was first discovered in 1974. years. A year later, the wreck robbed after an ingot for gold, AFP was found.
Michel L’Hour, head of the Underwater Archeology Agency in France, then noticed suspicious sale of gold from the US auction house in 2018. years. He contacted American authorities, who then seized five ingots and two other artifacts. Artifacts were returned in France 2022. years.
Authorities continued to identify the seller as Eleonor Courter, who claims to give her gold to her French friends Annette can Pesty and Gerard Pesty, who since she died.
Annette Pesty brought Golden Ingotes on a television show Roadshow antiques In 1999, he claimed that she received them while he was diving from the African islands of Cape Verdea, AFP report. But investigators did not believe that it was true, and instead turned the focus on his son-in-law, Yves hunger, who worked as an underwater photographer.
2022. He was familed by the stealing of 16 gold bars from the shipwreck between 1976. and 1999. years. He denied to give to any frame and said he sold them to a man in Switzerland instead. But investigators discovered the famine knew crashes for decades, reports AFP. The couple in 2011. went with himself in Greece, Caribbean in 2014. and French Polynesia in 2015. Investigators say.
Investigators now believe that subjects owned at least 23 golden bars and sold them 18 for more than $ 192,000, according to AFP. Order says they have arranged money to go hunger.
Police arrested courses in the UK three years ago. The couple was there on home arrest.
The French prosecutor requested that the courses, hunger and pestiny and Pestiy judge with theft and selling golden ingots. The trial, if the investigating judge ordered, is likely to take place next year.
Sudher lawyer, Gregory Levy, maintains his clients did not know how to do anything wrong and says they did not profit from the sale of gold.
“The refugees accepted because they are deeply beautiful people,” Levy told the AFP. “They didn’t see the harm like, in the United States, gold regulations are completely different from those in France.”
Surunes have two sons and daughters, adopted by foster care when 12 years old, according to Eleonor website. The 80-year-old announced almost a dozen books, of which five best.