Life is full of surprises, some more expected and predictable than others, but we can be sure that what Nick Mead experienced a few years ago may be one of the most incredible so far.
To put some context to this story, Mead is a military vehicle collector who accumulates more than 150 on his farm in Helmdon, in Northamptonshire, in the United Kingdom. This man has set up a kind of amusement park where he allows visitors to ride in these vehicles in exchange for a small payment, and offers you the possibility of riding in tanks or military cars.
As part of his job, Mead is looking for new vehicles to add to his collection and a few weeks ago he saw and bought an old tank from the invasion of Kuwait, in the 90s, for about 36,000 euros on the eBay buying and selling platform. According to the account, it was a T-69 tank, a Chinese version of the Soviet T-54 tank, which had ended up in the ranks of the Iraqi army, which is accused of looting the country and stealing everything of value that they found in its path. .
The thing is that much of this loot had to be hidden to avoid reprisals or others taking it, and that is why from time to time real treasures appear in places that no one expected. As Mead shows in a video he published on YouTube, when he opened the tank tank with his trusted mechanic, both were left totally amazed and speechless with what they saw inside.
YouTube video
And in the tank of this old tank, they found up to five gold bars of about five kilos each, which in total are valued at 2.5 million euros. Since I couldn’t go anywhere with this loot, Mead called the police, who took the bullion, giving him a receipt stating that if no one claimed it it would be his. At the time we write this news we still do not know if anyone has claimed it or if this collector is now a millionaire.
The most likely thing is that you will never hear anything about those ingots again, and in cases of war loot, it is the victim country, in this case Kuwait, that has the right to claim that treasure as its own.
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