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German treasure hunter fails to bury bank debt

The New Zealand connection to the controversial excavation of Tang dynasty treasure.

Hamish McNicol
Mon, 16 May 2016

A German engineer turned treasure hunter who salvaged 63,000 Chinese artefacts worth $32 million from the wreck of an Arabian ship has been ordered to pay Westpac $100,000.

In 1998, fishermen discovered a wreck off the coast of Indonesia’s Belitung Island which would become known as the “Tang

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Hamish McNicol
Mon, 16 May 2016
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