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For more than eight years, that was all we knew about the mysterious death of Michael de Guzman. Lots of theories, deep doubts, and nothing more. But a couple of weeks ago, the ghost of Bre-X reappeared. One of de Guzman's widows said she received a $25,000 money order from her supposedly dead husband earlier this year.
The fraud began to unravel rapidly beginning on March 19, 1997, when Bre-X geologist Michael de Guzman reportedly died of suicide by jumping from a helicopter in Indonesia. A body was found four days later in the jungle, missing the hands and feet, "surgically removed". In addition, the body was reportedly mostly eaten by animals.
May 19, 2024 · On the morning of 19 March 1997, Michael de Guzman, chief geologist at Canadian mining company Bre-X Minerals, boarded a helicopter flight to travel to a remote jungle site in Indonesia.
Jan 26, 2017 · Did Michael de Guzman really plummet to his death from a helicopter? Yes. Filipino geologist Michael de Guzman, who is renamed Michael Acosta and portrayed by Edgar Ramírez in the movie, did perish after plummeting into the Borneo jungle from a helicopter.
Jan 27, 2017 · De Guzman Lives: In this popular yarn, Bre-X geologist Michael de Guzman — known as Big Boss by underlings — fakes his own death and takes off to South America with his millions. Like Bigfoot...
