Student Finds 49 Gold Bars and 4,000 Coins Worth $10.5M in First Week at Work: Police Seize Treasure
Prosecutors are weighing inheritance claims and possible criminal links before deciding whether the finder, the owner or descendants can keep the hoard.
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The discovery made headlines worldwide: in Belgium, construction workers discovered gold worth around nine million euros in renovation work. But who does it belong to? The trail could lead to a brewery family. By S. Fritz.
Belgian police are investigating the possible ownership of a gold hoard discovered by construction workers this week. Workers who discovered a pile of coins and gold bars at a construction site are hoping that the owner will not be found, as that would mean the discoverers themselves would also be able to claim a share of the treasure.
Local authorities have not yet managed to find out who hid in the foundations of a Flemish mansion ingots and gold coins valued at nine million euros
In the north of Brussels, numerous ingots and gold coins have been discovered on a construction site in a building belonging to an old family of brewers in Termonde. Since then, the courts have been trying to know the origin of this mango estimated at 9 million euros to know who to attribute it to.
Student Finds 49 Gold Bars and 4,000 Coins Worth $10.5M in First Week at Work: Police Seize Treasure
An 18-year-old student's first week in a part-time construction job ended with the discovery of an extraordinary hidden fortune after he uncovered 49 gold bars and around 4,000 gold coins worth an estimated €9 million ($10.5 million) beneath a former brewery in Belgium. Instead of walking away with a life-changing payday, the student worker Kobe Phillips watched police take custody of the hoard as investigators worked to establish its legal owne…
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