Construction Workers Dig Up Mysterious $10M Gold Stash While Working on Sewer System
Police said the hoard included more than 40 gold bars and 4,000 coins, and investigators are now tracing its origin and ownership.
- Construction workers in Sint-Gillis-Dendermonde, Belgium, unexpectedly uncovered a gold hoard estimated at about €9 million while digging trenches for a new sewer beneath a former brewery.
- The discovery included 49 gold bars, thousands of coins and gold nuggets, which had apparently been deliberately hidden inside a bricked-up cellar wall beneath the former brewery owner's villa.
- The workers immediately contacted authorities, and the treasure was inventoried and transferred to a secure government facility while prosecutors investigate its origins and determine who legally owns it.
- The stash may be connected to the former Van Assche brewing family, but no owner has been established, and Belgian law gives potential claimants five years to come forward before ownership issues can be resolved.
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Construction workers uncover $10 million in gold while building sewer under former brewery – Democratic Accent
Construction workers in Belgium this week uncovered $10.4 million in gold while building a new sewer below a former brewery, according to local police. Police in Sint-Gillis-Dendermonde, a Flemish community outside Brussels, said the workers contacted them immediately about the find, which officers cataloged, then placed in a “high-security federal government vault.” An 18-year-old worker on the site named Kobe told VRT news he at first thought …
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