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They suspected having sold gold:
In a indictment consulted this Tuesday. Nevertheless, July 1, 2025, the prosecutor of Brest requires the correctional dismissal of Yves and Brigitte Gladu, a couple of Bretons aged 77 and 75, of their sister-in-law, Annette May Pesty, 78, and a couple of Americans living in Florida, Eleonor (said gay), 80 years old, Courter, 82 years old. Similarly, All five are suspected of having participated in the resale of ingots looted on the wreckage of the Prince of Conty. In addition, a frigate of the India Company failed in 1746 in Brittany.
The magistrate requires prosecution for the association of criminals against all suspects. Moreover, also asking that some of them be judged for the whitening of theft and concealment of theft.
A regular in Breton waters. However, an American writer – They suspected having sold gold
The case begins on February 21, 2018, when Michel L’Hour, director of the French Department of Underwater they suspected having sold gold Archaeological Research (DRASSM), reports a suspicious sale of five gold bars on an American website.
The American authorities capture the loot because Michel l’Hour ensures that the ingots in question come from the wreck of the Prince of Conty. Therefore, a ship having shipwrecked on December 3, 1746 by a night of storm and fog, near Belle-ile-en-Mer (Morbihan).
Immersed by 10 to 15 meters deep. Nevertheless, in an area particularly difficult to access, the wreckage had fallen into oblivion until its discovery, in 1974, then its bag, the following year.
Quickly identified. they suspected having sold gold the seller of the ingots turns out to be gay court, a successful American writer living in Crystal River, on the west coast of Florida. She says she keeps these ingots from a couple of French friends. Gérard Pesty (died since) and Annette May Pesty.
In an American television program broadcast twenty years earlier. Annette May Pesty had assured that he had discovered these ingots during a dive off Cape Verde. But the investigators quickly dismiss this hypothesis. guide their investigations to the brother-in-law of Annette May Pesty, Yves Gladu, a professional underwater photographer in the world.
Accustomed to Breton waters. Yves Gladu had escaped a first trial in November 1983, already on the looting of the Prince of Conty. The Lorient Criminal Court had sentenced five defendants for embezzlement. concealment of sea wreck but could not locate looted ingots.
Forty dives. 16 lingots raised
Placed in police custody, in May 2022, Yves Gladu they suspected having sold gold finally admitted having plunged forty times on the wreckage, between 1976 and 1999, and having gone up 16 ingots, which he said that he had sold, in 2006, to a former soldier in Switzerland.
But he claims to have not put ingots from the courter. a couple he has known since the 1980s and who has embarked on his catamaran “Tethys” in Greece (2011), the Caribbean (2014) and the Marquesas Islands (2015) – This ship was also seized by justice in the investigation.
Aimed by an international arrest warrant. the short spouses were arrested and then under house arrest in the summer of 2022, in Southampton (United Kingdom). Questioned by the Brest judge. they explain that they have sold 18 ingots for more than 192,000 dollars (163,000 euros), especially on the Ebay online commerce site.
The ingots (23 in total) had been entrusted to the spouses courter in 1986 by Gérard Pesty but they suspected having sold gold the income. of their sale was to return to the Gladu spouses. Gérard Pesty had notably sold three ingots at the British Museum.
A trial in the fall of 2026
“The courts accepted because they are deeply friendly and friendly people. They have not seen evil because in the United States. gold regulations are not at all the same as in France: the transfer is completely free, “said their lawyer Me Grégory Lévy.
“They did not enrich anything,” added the lawyer saying that he would fight to obtain a dismissal or relax.
Contacted, the other lawyers did not follow up. A trial could take place in the fall of 2026, according to the prosecution.
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