The wreckage of the French ship from the eighteenth century can accuse the US novelist and its husband

An 80 -year -old American novelist and her husband are among many people who face a possible trial in France because of her illegal sale of gold bars looted by the wreckage of a ship from the eighteenth century, after the French prosecutors requested the case to court.

Illonor “Jay” was accused of Corter and her 82 -year -old husband Philip of helping alloys online because of French diver stole it decades ago, but they denied knowing any violations.

Le Prince De Conty, a French ship trading with Asia, was drowned off the British coast during a stormy night in the winter of 1746. Of the 229 men on board, only 45 managed to survive, according to what he said. The Ministry of Culture of France.

Its debris was discovered more than two centuries after the century, in 1974, lying from 30 to 50 feet of water near the island of Belle-Ele-Mer.

The debris was looted in 1975 after the discovery of a gold bond while wiping the site.

In the eighties of the last century, archaeologists discovered the Chinese porcelain in the eighteenth century, the remains of tea boxes, and three Chinese golden bars in and around the ship.

However, the violent storm in 1985 erupts the ship’s remains, ending the official excavations.

Ultimately, some looted gold bars on the ship found their way to an auction in San Francisco, CBS Bay area I mentioned.

In 2018, the head of the underwater antiquities department in France, Michelle, discovered an hour a hour of sale for five gold bars on an American auction site.

The authorities told us that he believed that they were raised by Prince De Conte, and they seized the treasure, Return to France in 2022.

“These things tell the history of France, its trade and its people,” said Steve Francis, a senior official at the US Department of Internal Security. In a statement at that time. “HSI is proud to play a role in ensuring that these artifacts are part of France’s history for future generations to enjoy them.”

The seller investigators have identified as a “gay” Corter, a cinematic author and producer living in Florida.

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Corteter said she got the precious metal by two French friends, Annette May Perry, today 78, and her deceased partner, Gerard.

Bert told the TV series “The Way of the Road” in 1999 that it had discovered gold while diving outside the island of Cape Verdi in West Africa.

But the investigators found that this is unlikely and instead they focused on its son -in -law, and he is now a 77 -year -old underwater photographer Eve Glado.

The 1983 trial found five people guilty of embezzlement and receiving stolen goods on Prince De Conte looting.

Glado was not among them.

It was held in 2022, and he admitted the recovery of 16 golden bars from the ship during about 40 divers on the site between 1976 and 1999.

He said he sold them all in 2006 to a retired army member who lives in Switzerland.

But he denied that he gave any of his American friends.

The author and her husband have known since the eighties, and joined him on a vacation in his circumambulation in Greece in 2011, in the Caribbean Sea in 2014 and in French Polinism in 2015.

The couple, Korea, was detained in the United Kingdom in 2022, and then placed under the arrest of the house.

French investigators concluded that they were in possession of at least 23 golden tapes in total.

They found that they sold 18 alloy for more than 192,000 dollars, including some online online sales platform.

But the roles claimed that the arrangement was always to go to Glado.

“They are nice people deeply”

The Public Prosecutor in the West French city of Prest, experts, Glado and Annette be tried, according to a document obtained by Agence France -Presse on Tuesday.

The investigating judge still must decide whether to be asked to try, but the prosecutors said that the trial was likely to be in the fall of 2026.

Gregory Levi’s lawyer, Gregory Levy, said they had no idea what they were entering.

He said: “Experts have accepted that they are very good people. They did not see the harm as in the United States, the gold regulations are completely different from those in France,” adding that the couple did not benefit from sales.

Other suspect lawyers did not immediately respond to France’s request to Agence France Presse to comment.

Corter wrote many fictional and non -fictional books, some of which are under a marine headline, According to its website.

One of them is an exciting film on a tourist ship, while its realistic account is besieging the lining of the ocean off the Japanese coast during the Covid-19 2020 rooms.