OK-GLI<\/a>), which has been stranded in Bahrain for over four years, be returned to its Russian owners. The Buran has been stranded in Bahrain since mid-2002 due to a court dispute over who it belongs to.<\/p>\nRussian company NPO Molniya originally sold it to Singapore-based Space Shuttle World Tour, but later filed a case in the Bahrain courts claiming the latter failed to make all the payments.<\/p>\n
The High Criminal Court ruled in NPO Molniya’s favour on October 31 last year and ordered for the sale contract to be terminated.<\/p>\n
However, the Singaporean company appealed against the verdict in the Supreme Civil Appeal Court, which upheld the original verdict yesterday.<\/p>\n
Under the terms of sale, the Singaporean company agreed to buy the Buran for $320,000 (BD120,960).<\/p>\n
It was supposed to pay the amount in two equal instalments and coughed up $160,000 (BD60,480) in April 2002.<\/p>\n
However, it failed to meet a condition that said it should pay the second instalment within a month.<\/p>\n
The shuttle was brought to Bahrain by Pico in July 2002 and was a feature of the Bahrain Summer festival.<\/p>\n
Pico had negotiated with Space Shuttle World Tour to bring it here, but a case was filed in Bahrain by NPO in 2002 to prevent the shuttle from being sent to Thailand as a tourist attraction – claiming the sale was null and void because Space Shuttle World Tour had breached the contract.<\/p>\n
Bahrain’s Supreme Civil Appeal Court also ruled yesterday that Pico, or any other party, had any right to the spacecraft.<\/p>\n
Bahrain’s Cassation Court has previously overruled a High Civil Court decision that the dispute fell outside Bahraini jurisdiction.<\/p>\n
Before coming to Bahrain, Buran was shipped to Australia in 2000 to become a tourist attraction, but failed to earn enough money to stay open.<\/p>\n
The GDN reported last September that labourers had been sleeping inside the shuttle after getting through a hole in its structure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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