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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Science
Jim Waterson

GB News joint owner loses fight over £34m of secretly salvaged silver

Sir Paul Marshall speaking at an event
Sir Paul Marshall’s company extracted the silver from the WW2 wreck of the SS Tilawa, which was torpedoed by the Japanese. Photograph: CNBC/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal/Getty Images

The joint owner of GB News has lost a legal battle with the South African government over £34m of silver secretly salvaged from a second world war shipwreck.

Paul Marshall, who is lining up a bid for the Daily Telegraph, had claimed ownership of 2,364 silver bars his company had recovered from the bottom of the Indian Ocean.

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