The mystery of the man embroiled in a billion dollar gold scam

Six weeks upcoming de Guzman’s loss of life, the Busang gold dream was once over for everybody, depart buyers in depression.

Bre-X Minerals’ C$6bn valuation have been lowered to not anything.

An detached document would verify there was once deny gold in any respect on the Busang web site. Rock samples courting from 1995 to 1997 had been analysed and located to were tampered with thru a procedure referred to as salting. Fragments of gold from every other supply have been sprinkled amongst rock samples by means of a saltshaker to falsify effects.

Virtually 30 years next, no-one has ever been held in control of the rip-off.

Walsh maintained he knew not anything about it and died of a stroke in 1998. In 2007, a Canadian pass judgement on dominated that Felderhof have been blind to the swindle and located him now not to blame of insider buying and selling. The Dutch geologist died in 2019.

That brings us again to de Guzman. Had he taken his personal presen to steer clear of having to expose that he have been the mastermind of the deceit?

His suicide notes carry considerations, says Wilton.

For the podcast, a cousin, as soon as got rid of, of Felderhof – Suzanne Felderhof – says he had expressed indecision over whether or not de Guzman may ever have written them.

The notes point out bodily illnesses which, she says, her relative had by no means heard him bitch about.

Wilton says every other suicide be aware was once written to a Bre-X Minerals finance supervisor who de Guzman didn’t in fact know. In it, one among de Guzman’s other halves’ names have been spelt incorrectly.

Dr Benito Molino was once a member of the Filipino investigative crew rented through de Guzman’s society to inspect the proof as soon as the post-mortem reviews have been discharged.

Within the images of the frame discovered within the woodland, Molino says he noticed bruises at the neck and concluded de Guzman had died through strangulation.

“When he was dead, he must have been thrown out of the chopper in the jungle to make it appear he committed suicide,” Molino tells the podcast.

“In big crimes, there will always be a fall guy, so we don’t believe that the real mastermind will be identified.”

Or was once the frame even that of de Guzman?

In line with preliminary descriptions, it might seem the person have been lifeless for longer than 4 days – the hour it took for the frame to be came upon – says forensic anthropologist, Dr Richard Taduran, who labored with Molino.

De Guzman’s spouse Genie additionally says the enamel had been intact at the frame that was once discovered, and but her husband had fake enamel. De Guzman’s dental data have by no means been discharged through his society, says Wilton.