The police reported on the “extraordinary lost property”.
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A man had left an envelope with a savings account and cash in the car and sold the car. Five years later he got a call.
A lost one Savings book with a credit of 17,000 euros and 5,000 euros Cash* found their way back to their owner after five years. Of the 69 year old had that back then Envelope, in which the money and the savings account were, forgotten in his car and later sold the car, as the Police Headquarters North Hesse in Kassel reports. He probably didn’t remember the hiding place from then. Five years later he got a call from the police.
Police describe “strange” money found and in the car
Because the current owner of the car – a 50-year-old man from Kassel – has one in the car on February 20th “Curious find” done, as the police describe, and notified the officers. He got in one Compartment behind the passenger seat completely unexpected to the unknown to him Envelope discovered. When he opened it, he found that in it Savings book with the credit as well as the cash. “Amazed at that Find in his car, which he had bought second-hand from a dealer over four years ago, the 50-year-old went to the south-west police station, ”the police report said. As he described the officer there, he could not explain how the envelope got into his car.
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Police investigate “losers of the savings account and cash”
The police were able to find the owner of the envelope in Lower Saxony in this, according to their own description, “extraordinary lost property”, including the name of the savings account, and notify the man by telephone: 69-year-old “loser of the savings book and cash” was “visibly surprised” according to the officials. The officers had to assure him several times that the call and their request were not a joke. “As the man then stated, he has actually been missing his savings account for almost five years,” the police report said.
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Honest finder helps 69-year-olds get their money
It turned out that The 50-year-old’s car from Kassel used to be one of his vehicles, according to the police. As part of a move in 2016, he and his family had also closed a barn with various vehicles. Interested parties came every day. Presumably you have the envelope with the savings book and the Cash in the hustle and bustle quickly before a test drive hidden behind the passenger seatwhich was unfortunately forgotten later in the hustle and bustle
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The 69-year-old now wants to come over in the next few days and his Valuables the police reported at the beginning of March – “thanks to the honest 50-year-old finder from Kassel”. (ahu) * Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.
Source: notification from the police
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