Claudio Vs Claudio part 2
Besides suspicions Bonifacio, to Spain came a problem on the ITLOS (International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, by its acronym in English), headquartered in Hamburg (Germany), to account 'Case Bahia 2'. In 2010 the state championed by 'Louisa' (Saint Vincent & Grenadines) sue the Kingdom of Spain for nearly thirty million dollars to compensate the illegal boarding vessel, no return in time to the shipowner, lost profits and regain their seaworthiness. It was the first time a signatory to the UN Convention on Rights of the Sea claimed the Spanish State, which also signed this international covenant. The matter was going badly. The defense of the plaintiffs headed the prestigious American maritime lawyer S. Cass Weiland and his team. Spain designated the lawyer Concepción Escobar Hernández, Professor of International Law at the UNED and UN advises. Also Mariano Aznar, another professor and expert lawyer in international maritime disputes led a specialized firm in such matters. In May 2013 the ITLOS sentenced, after intense discussions of the judge, access requests of the flag of 'Louisa' not have jurisdiction to do so. The decision of the ITLOS sentence litigants to pay each hand, half a million dollars for expenses that originated the lawsuit. We suspect that Spain also have cost him a peak of bills of Escobar and Aznar, his countless journeys, Rates hotels, diets and meals in Hamburg plus their respective legal teams. Moreover, opinions circulated that required to avoid the blow that would surely an outraged Foster. the American considered it an affront to all the Spanish licenses he had for his business venture in Cadiz waters. What happened in Hamburg is one of the steps of a lawsuit (summary of the 'Case Bahia 2') that some defenses of defendants considered 'very technical'. In the eyes of any chronicler of events or lay analyst would a procedure extends far in time almost 10 years of drift hearing of oral argument, even locate any of the accused, dismiss defendants admitted after failures and irregularities that cause a slow justice is even more so. So it seems to those inside and outside the record. Bonifacio, perhaps guided by your intuition and suspicions that transmitted friends and experts, kept mulling over research the complainant's 'Bahia Case 2'. I just knew thereof was a singular young underwater archaeologist working for his account, which appeared and disappeared in specialized forums and Spanish territory. The 'man of Odyssey' was called as Bonifacio, Claudio. He claimed to be a historian from the University of Huelva, doctor, master, university professor and ubiquitous international explorer for wrecks ...
The other Claudio, according to a profile that is hung on the net, had few years to many adventures of a rival Indiana Jones submarine with the academic background to seduce investors, television, universities, institutions and cultural foundations. Claudio Bonifacio decided to hire the author [of this book] to establish suspected links between a complainant and Odyssey, pirates the XXI century shipwrecks in Spanish waters plundered by turbid official and foreign complicity. Odyssey was reported once by Bonifacio and other experts for their illegal activities. The detective asked about Claudio fom 'Huelva'. His last name were rare and unite with script to round possible aristocratic origins. The province of Huelva was the first scenario which investigated this Claudio. Before he turned 30 years several small companies linked diving and archaeological interventions, private passions that character. Their current leaders spoke neither good nor bad guy. In another company came through female reasons, according outspoken and human resources experts. It was recommended as manager and his management did not deserve the renewal of the contract to collect incidences in a hurry to make money, puts unemployed friends and lacks the worth and humility necessary for the job. The company ended up bankrupt, its hundreds of workers on the street and this was fortunate to escape the fiasco days before of substantiated. Days after his managerial stage to the other Claudio this detective lose track because it departs from Spain on board of a ship of treasure hunters plying the Caribbean. The base of the company was in Tampa (Florida).What a coincidence! It's the same lair precious treasure hunters and Odyssey. Without many details to identify their fingerprints, these adventures This Claudio counted his own when he returned to Huelva. Distinction made between family members, telling them about that and others researching in archives and museums in Europe and staying in luxury hotels. It was a mystery who paid both travel and ostentation. His small house in a beach of Huelva falling apart supporting mortgage and taxes were paid on time money from the United States. Claudio, from Huelva, made a ruling that took the detective to reveal it to Bonifacio. A former friend the Huelva guy cleared his lies the researcher, had collaborated with the SEPRONA (unit of Guardia Civil expert in environmental crime and urban) documenting allegations of historical topics exchange for certain favors that favored their strange activities and shady business. In addition, this former friend provided an address in Tampa resulting be the corporate headquarters of Odyssey. At the end of the report the detective included another revealing fact: 'whitened' with that exaggerated academic curriculum which boasted recovery treasures from a Spanish ship that apparently and centuries ago, wrecked in the Florida Keys.
His name appeared next to the owner's Odyssey, his wife, a diver using this company plus a teacher at a 'college' of Florida. The work was spread on a corporate publication of Odyssey distributed among its investors, shareholders, customers, press, American and foreign universities and institutions. This Claudio was the 'man of Odyssey'. There was no doubt. The detective substantiate their work further on the vague legal ratification of this Claudio in 2010. Four years earlier, in 2006, denounced the SEPRONA a ship called 'Louisa', docked in Puerto de Santa María, plunder archaeological heritage in the Bay of Cadiz. That paucity required more data on the interest of the complainant and the serious consequences of his claim by the teaser that he originated and how fast UCO-Guardia Civil from Madrid activated its investigating alerts. Of the Huelva Claudio deserves to be almost play the ratification court of their complaint: "In a casual conversation in a bar in the port of Mazagon before a group of known and others that they were not the subject of the existence of numerous wrecks emerged with sunken treasure in the Spanish coast. One individual were making extraction of underwater heritage by area of Puerto de Santa María. They know the name of that individual. The declarant states that given the strangeness so move him revealed without any self interest he communicated to SEPRONA. That that individual did not elaborate that transmitted by the respondent. Who spoke of a sunken fleet called Constable, who was unaware of the details. What quoted the ship (Louisa). Although he is an archaeologist by profession was versed in the art. That they did not cite any name on particular individual. "
The short of it is that 'I tell you what I've heard from someone anonymous'. Had rankings selective memories, forgetful and amnesic, this Claudio win by a landslide.
The detective concluded that the complainant threw the stone and hid hand. Its American ties and evidence with Odyssey portrayed him as 'his man' in the 'Case Bahia 2'. Other data that cooled the detective's report were that Odyssey had complicities and strange 'licenses' that vaccinated him Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs to prosecution, reports of archaeologists, the Junta de Andalucía, Navy and Ministry of Culture and the duration of her predatory impunity in Spanish waters between 1998 and 2009. The 'diplomatic key' that gave them such credit was difficult negotiations on the joint sovereignty of Gibraltar between Spain and the United Kingdom. Another excuse used Odyssey to 'throw' the Spanish was licensed by the British Admiralty to locate the remains of HMS Sussex, sunk near the settlement three centuries ago. So, the 'Case Bahia 2' seemed an effective smoke curtain launched by Odyssey to eliminate competitors criminalize experts (including Claudio Bonifacio) and overlap their depredations on the rights of other treasure hunters licensed by Spanish authorities, which is the case of 'Sea Hunt' presiding by Peter Knollenberg. The treble that could Odyssey to the 'Case Bahia 2' was masterful. A provincial detective had nosed up links friendly between two Majorcan who had acted on behalf of lobby settled in Madrid and emerging from a law shaft who stopped all the shots that common sense surfaced outside Spain, specifically in the courts of Tampa where he was finally Odyssey ordered to return what was not his property. The ninguneo on the report of the detective's note. For this reason appears this story here. Illustrates that the obvious way, logical or full of common sense does not interest the bureaucracy of power. The court of Cádiz that instructs the 'Case Bahia 2' on the report of the detective decided to defer any decision. Calls upon appropriate procedure to assess the apparent contamination the complaint which led to the summary. This legal profane unknown if this is a possible crime which starred his accuser for alleged perjury and procedural scam. The millions of euros that cost portfolio of all Spanish proceedings and summary proceedings for ten years (including payments charged to their defenses, attorneys, experts and official opinions) are adrift looking for who will pay this duck or madness, depending how you look. To this should be added almost another million euros that has cost the Kingdom of Spain before the ITLOS demand for legal costs and the costs of his defense. Our righteousness, so quick to incarcerate criminals poor, enact as appropriate social alarms or relativize crimes of 'white collar', dodge admit that they have cast a goal from the first minute. And all at an honest privateer who hires a detective must whose sole mission was to discover hidden truths too many eyes. More stories about the adventures and handling of Odyssey on land Spanish waters and worth reading them in checked Working skipper and maritime lawyer Lorenzo Pipe Sarmiento titled Odyssey File (Cultiva, 2012). The 'Case Bahia 2' still has chapters to write. Is pending trial to be held almost ten years addressed in port 'Louisa' at best. They are the drop files and dismissals a few defendants who are on almost initial thirty defendants. A Claudio Bonifacio defends a lawyer, Servando Meana Perez, who besides knowing the intricacies of the law knows register as keeper of his client not to mess it a new goal. In 2015 and beyond, many years after germination the 'Case Bahia 2 ', the war of the Claudios start in the XXI century. the Corsair against lackey pirates. The fight will be in courtroom, not board nor any galleon submerged wreck hunting for new treasures. Can not conclude this account of treasure hunters, pirates and privateers without finding that the best reports about the story star Claudios were developed by Isabel Laguna (EFE) and Agustin Rivera (elconfidencial.com).
