Imagine your girlfriend throws billions of rupees worth of treasure into the trash. What would happen? It may sound hard to believe, but this is exactly what happened to a resident of Wales, who is now ready to clean up an entire mountain of garbage in search of his treasure.

It might seem strange to think that someone would casually throw away such a large fortune, but the treasure in question consists of Bitcoins.

James Howells, a computer engineer, separated a hard drive from an old laptop during office cleaning in 2013, which contained 8,000 Bitcoins worth $760 million (over 2 trillion Pakistani rupees). This hard drive was thrown into a landfill in Newport City, Wales, by his ex-girlfriend, Hafina Eddy Evans.

She didn’t know that the hard drive contained Bitcoin data and discarded it because James Howells had instructed her to throw away the trash.

Now, James Howells is fighting a legal battle with the local council to have the trash site cleaned, and Hafina Eddy expects him to find the hard drive so she can silence him once and for all.

Howells has taken the local council to court in hopes of retrieving the Bitcoins, but there’s a huge problem: one hundred and ten thousand tons of trash.

James Howells has promised to donate 10% of the recovered treasure to the local community. The Newport City Council confirmed that they had received numerous requests from Howells to clean the site since 2013, all of which have been rejected.

A spokesperson for the Newport City Council said that managing the site is their responsibility, and excavating it could pose environmental risks, which they cannot accept, hence they have decided not to grant permission.