Teen Student Finds €9 Million Gold Treasure While Digging Sewer Line in Belgium: ‘Coins, Nuggets, Bullion Bars’
Police removed 49 gold bars and a bucket of coins after workers found the cache during sewer excavation, and prosecutors are investigating its origin.
- Construction workers in Dendermonde, Belgium, uncovered a large hoard of gold while installing a sewer system near Brussels, with police confirming the discovery is worth around €9 million.
- Kobe, an 18-year-old student working on the site, told VRT that the team initially mistook the treasure for ordinary €1 coins before realizing the true value upon finding a gold nugget.
- Police shared images of 49 gold bars and a bucket of coins recovered from the site, while site manager Mario stated the discovery was an experience he had never encountered in his long career.
- Following the recovery, the East Flanders Public Prosecutor's Office launched an investigation to determine the origin and legal ownership of the recovered gold, which is now in a high-security vault.
- Owned by CAW Oost-Vlaanderen, the excavation site remains fenced off due to dangerous pits, and police warned the public against entering the area to search for more treasure.
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They were working to renovate a house in Belgium and, while digging to install new sewer pipes, they found a treasure of nine million euros. It happened to a group of masons and, to tell the Belgian public station VRT, as reported by the BBC, he was an 18-year-old student, engaged in a summer job. [...] The article Find a treasure of nine million while digging for a sewer: "At the beginning we thought they were euro coins, then we also saw an in…
Gold bars, rare coins: 18-year-old worker discovers Rs 98 crore treasure during sewage work in Belgium
Local police said these workers uncovered a “large quantity of gold” during the excavation and then police arrived at the site, collected the treasure and moved it to a high-security government vault after it was inventoried.
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