 The Lao Government terminated GML’s mining concession and then nationalized GML’s sapphire mines.Jeppesen's caretakers, Kerry and Kay Danes, were arrested later the same year.By the end of 2000, Warrant Officer (WO) Kerry Danes, a Special Air Service Regiment (SAS) soldier on extended leave from the Australian Army, had been living for two years in the capital city Vientiane.