Treasure legend: Yamashita Gold Warehouse (Part 4)

Many people believe that during the Second World War Japanese fascists had plundered a lot of wealth. Due to not being able to transport all of them to Japan, before surrendering to allies, Japanese general Tomoyuki Yamashita brought a part of that treasure to many places, including Vietnam.

Yellow lily campaign

According to Sterling Seagrave and Peggy Seagrave, the authors of a number of research books on Japan, wealthy plundering campaigns are organized on a large scale, with both forces being Yakuza mafia gangs like Yoshio Kodama and others. People at the highest level of Japanese society, including Emperor Hirohito. The Japanese government intends to plunder assets in Southeast Asia to support their war.

Seagrave researchers said that Emperor Hirohito had appointed his brother, Prince Yasuhito Chichibu, to head a secret organization called Kin no yuri (Yellow Tuberose). The purpose of Golden Tuberose is to collect and occupy 12 Asian countries and gold that are being occupied by Japan.

In Nanjing (China), Japan receives more than 6,000 tons of gold and a series of valuable cash and artwork. In Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Japan captured a lot of 23.97K gold ingots, each weighing 6.25kg.

In Cambodia, many large gold and gold Buddha statues were taken away by Japanese troops. In Myanmar, thousands of tons of gold were plundered. In the Philippines, 51 tons of gold, 32 tons of silver ingots and a large amount of gems were also taken by Japanese troops.

According to many documents and accounts, wealth was initially gathered in Singapore, then moved to the Philippines to bring it to Japan after the war ended. The person in charge of this job is General Tomoyuki Yamashita, commander of the Japanese army in the Philippines, nicknamed "Malaya Tiger".

But the Pacific war broke out, American submarines and fighters and their allies blocked the sea, sinking many Japanese ships, including some ships carrying gold and silver. Japanese troops must bring gold and silver to buried in many places in the Philippines and Vietnam.

Lawsuits

On January 1, 1970, the Philippine President, Ferdinand Marcos, said his wealth was due to the acquisition of the Yamashita Gold Warehouse. In 1992, Imelda Marcos's widow reaffirmed that her husband had found 4,000 tons of gold from the Yamashita gold store. Many people believe that, but many others think that is how Marcos legitimized the money he was spending with corruption.

Gold is hidden in many places.

However, there are many lawsuits against Mr. Marcos to ask for the dug gold from Yamashita gold warehouses. In the late 1990s, a group of people claiming to be a Filipino 16th Infantry Battalion filed a lawsuit against Mr. Marcos for not sharing their share after helping him dig 60,000 tons of gold and silver jewelry during 1973-1985.

In 1999, Roberto B. Caoile, a spokesman for the group, said the 16th Battalion was reestablished in September 1972 with the task of secretly unearthing the Yamashita gold warehouses under the orders of President Marcos. According to Caoile, for more than 12 years of searching, the 16th Battalion unearthed about 30 of the Yamashita 175 gold warehouses.

Earlier, in 1988, a Filipino treasure hunter named Rogelio Roxas filed a lawsuit against the Marcos couple who stole the dug wealth, which he believed was the gold warehouse Yamashita. Roxas said he accidentally spotted a treasure with a golden Buddha statue, the statue opened up and inside there were many rough diamonds.

News came to President Marcos. Roxas is arrested and tortured to confiscate the treasure. On the night before the trial, Roxas mysteriously died, many believed to be done by Marcos.

Gold warehouse of Tau Mountain

According to many people, a train carrying gold Yamashita arrived in the area of ​​Tau Mountain (Phuoc The commune, Tuy Phong district, Binh Thuan) and buried the treasure there, estimated at 4,000 tons of gold. According to Tran Anh, living in Lien Huong, Tuy Phong, his grandfather, Mr. Tran Mua, was a railroad officer at Vinh Hao Station around 1943-1944.

At this time, Mr. Buy discovered that the electric light bulb was very bright on the mountain and there was a very large ship parked in the sea with some Japanese soldiers standing guard to transport something to the top of the mountain. Mr. Mua told his son, Mr. Tran Bang, the platoon leader of the Security Security Army in Lien Huong. By 1970, Mr. Bang received orders to protect four Americans from helicopters from Saigon. These people use the poles to mark up the helicopter and leave the mountain. After 1975, Mr. Bang took his son, Anh, to the mountains and drew the diagram himself.

The diagram was later handed over by Mr. Anh to Mr. Tran Van Tiep in Ho Chi Minh City, who spent 50 years on the search for the treasure of Tau Mountain. Mr. Tiep hired a professional unit to use drilling machines, bulldozers and excavators to search for this treasure.

Currently Mr. Tiep, despite being 98 years old, continues to hunt for treasure of Tau Mountain. Recently, TS. Vu Van Bang, Mr. Tiep's representative, said the survey team had discovered the treasure chest of the treasure: "The main treasure is 45 meters deep down the mountain, and the access road is nearly 100 meters long. far more than the figure given by Czech is 4,000 tons of gold. "