The Japanese buyer of Lim's house was Hideki, a businessman who had recently set up his construction business in Singapore. Soon after Hideki bought Lim's bungalow, he got his construction company to renovate it. It was an extensive renovation, almost to the point of demolishing and rebuilding it again.
The outside of the huge house with its big compound was barricaded with high wooden walls as if to block passersby from seeing it.
There was something that's fishy with the whole "renovation" thing that was going on with the Lim's former house. Many signs were put outside the house that warned of dangers to the public. Signs like "danger", "do not enter", "trespassers will be prosecuted" etc.
Lim called Tony and informed him of the situation. Lim was curious and hired Tony again to investigate the activities that was going on with his former house. Tony was asked to investigate the background of Hideki, the buyer of Lim's house.
The "renovation" was carried out in such a manner as not to arouse suspicion from the neighbours. It was authorised to carry out the work only during the day and no work should be done after 5 pm and on weekends and public holidays.
Tony and his team was assigned to find out the activities that was carried out in and around the house. It took Tony a week to discover that Hideki's men were digging the ground of the compound
for something that must have been seriously valuable and important.
There were excavators, cranes and many other construction equipments used for the project.
From Tony's sophisticated spy satellite equipments, Tony concluded that Hideki was looking for some kind of treasures.
Tony and his team spent the next few days going through the museum archives, history and old maps to establish the things that were buried in the compound of that Nassim Road house.
Angel spoke fluent Japanese and was placed in charge of eavesdropping into the conversation between Hideki and a man in Japan via their mobile phones (using "Tony Scan"). They spoke in Japanese and the subject was about something code-named " IKA". It was something very valuable and historical according to Angel.
After a week of eavesdropping into their conversations, Angel finally heard that IKA was actually Yamashita's Gold. It was found in the compound of the Nassim Rd house.
Yamashita's Gold was a treasure of gold, diamonds,precious stones etc., looted from the South East Asian banks, wealthy British and Chinese homes and museums by the occupying Japanese Imperial Army during World War 2. The treasure was named after the Japanese Army's chief General Yamashita.
The bulk of the treasure was transferred just before the fall of the Japanese forces to the Philippines. It was known to be hidden in caves and buried underground in the jungle of the Philippines.
The amount of gold and other precious gems buried in Nassim Road was just a fraction of the one that was shipped to the Philippines. Nonetheless, albeit small, the treasure was estimated to be of USD 100 billions in today's value. The ones in the Philippines are known to be worth trillions of dollars.
There was so much excitement not only in Hideki's camp but in Tony's too. The loot was to be flown out of Singapore to Japan in the next few nights. A small jet would fly in from Japan to transport the treasure from Seletar Airbase to the island of Okinawa, 7 hours flying time away.
One quiet moonless night, a black BMW 7-series and three Toyota Hiace vans left the vicinity of a house in Nassim Road. Hideki and two men in the BMW led the small column of three Toyota vans. It was just passed 2 am and the roads were void of heavy traffic.
Tony, Angel and TG followed them from a distance in a inconspicuous 2,000 cc Honda Accord.
Halfway through the journey to Seletar, just around a bend, the Honda Accord swerved into the path of the last van. It came to a screeching halt. Tony and company jumped out of their car, pulled the driver of the van out and knocked him unconscious with a powerful TG's punch.
Hideki realised what had happened. It was an ambush but fortunately not by the police. Together with the other two vans, they drove at a tremendous speed to Seletar Airbase, sacrificing the last van and 1/3 of the loot which fell into Tony's hand.
Tony and his team was contented seizing only a third of the treasure. They did not have the manpower to apprehend Hideki, his men and the other larger part of the treasure.
They reported the matter to Lim and was summoned to his new house at Bukit Timah Road.
It was almost 4 am when Tony,Angel and TG reached Lim's place. According to Lim, the treasure which they had was worth around USD 35 billion.
There was much celebration and Lim promised Tony that the treasure will be returned to their respective owners or their descendants.
Tony and company was paid a handsome $5 million for the job.
The outside of the huge house with its big compound was barricaded with high wooden walls as if to block passersby from seeing it.
There was something that's fishy with the whole "renovation" thing that was going on with the Lim's former house. Many signs were put outside the house that warned of dangers to the public. Signs like "danger", "do not enter", "trespassers will be prosecuted" etc.
Lim called Tony and informed him of the situation. Lim was curious and hired Tony again to investigate the activities that was going on with his former house. Tony was asked to investigate the background of Hideki, the buyer of Lim's house.
The "renovation" was carried out in such a manner as not to arouse suspicion from the neighbours. It was authorised to carry out the work only during the day and no work should be done after 5 pm and on weekends and public holidays.
Tony and his team was assigned to find out the activities that was carried out in and around the house. It took Tony a week to discover that Hideki's men were digging the ground of the compound
for something that must have been seriously valuable and important.
There were excavators, cranes and many other construction equipments used for the project.
From Tony's sophisticated spy satellite equipments, Tony concluded that Hideki was looking for some kind of treasures.
Tony and his team spent the next few days going through the museum archives, history and old maps to establish the things that were buried in the compound of that Nassim Road house.
Angel spoke fluent Japanese and was placed in charge of eavesdropping into the conversation between Hideki and a man in Japan via their mobile phones (using "Tony Scan"). They spoke in Japanese and the subject was about something code-named " IKA". It was something very valuable and historical according to Angel.
After a week of eavesdropping into their conversations, Angel finally heard that IKA was actually Yamashita's Gold. It was found in the compound of the Nassim Rd house.
Yamashita's Gold was a treasure of gold, diamonds,precious stones etc., looted from the South East Asian banks, wealthy British and Chinese homes and museums by the occupying Japanese Imperial Army during World War 2. The treasure was named after the Japanese Army's chief General Yamashita.
The bulk of the treasure was transferred just before the fall of the Japanese forces to the Philippines. It was known to be hidden in caves and buried underground in the jungle of the Philippines.
The amount of gold and other precious gems buried in Nassim Road was just a fraction of the one that was shipped to the Philippines. Nonetheless, albeit small, the treasure was estimated to be of USD 100 billions in today's value. The ones in the Philippines are known to be worth trillions of dollars.
There was so much excitement not only in Hideki's camp but in Tony's too. The loot was to be flown out of Singapore to Japan in the next few nights. A small jet would fly in from Japan to transport the treasure from Seletar Airbase to the island of Okinawa, 7 hours flying time away.
One quiet moonless night, a black BMW 7-series and three Toyota Hiace vans left the vicinity of a house in Nassim Road. Hideki and two men in the BMW led the small column of three Toyota vans. It was just passed 2 am and the roads were void of heavy traffic.
Tony, Angel and TG followed them from a distance in a inconspicuous 2,000 cc Honda Accord.
Halfway through the journey to Seletar, just around a bend, the Honda Accord swerved into the path of the last van. It came to a screeching halt. Tony and company jumped out of their car, pulled the driver of the van out and knocked him unconscious with a powerful TG's punch.
Hideki realised what had happened. It was an ambush but fortunately not by the police. Together with the other two vans, they drove at a tremendous speed to Seletar Airbase, sacrificing the last van and 1/3 of the loot which fell into Tony's hand.
Tony and his team was contented seizing only a third of the treasure. They did not have the manpower to apprehend Hideki, his men and the other larger part of the treasure.
They reported the matter to Lim and was summoned to his new house at Bukit Timah Road.
It was almost 4 am when Tony,Angel and TG reached Lim's place. According to Lim, the treasure which they had was worth around USD 35 billion.
There was much celebration and Lim promised Tony that the treasure will be returned to their respective owners or their descendants.
Tony and company was paid a handsome $5 million for the job.
2 comments:
Thanks Boh for the exciting thriller. You can be a professional writer.
U r welcome my friend
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