Mystified police in Austria are trying to find out how more than 1,00,000 euros in 100 and 500 euro notes came to be floating down an arm of the River Danube.
Mystified police in Austria are trying to find out how more than 1,00,000 euros in 100 and 500 euro notes came to be floating down an arm of the River Danube. Investigations have so far found no criminal act in the area in which such a sum of money had been lost, the Vienna police said.
One young man who spotted the treasure on Saturday jumped into the river to retrieve it. Bystanders thinking he was attempting to commit suicide alerted the police, who arrived just as he was fishing out the money. He is now trying to claim a share. “The boy said he wanted to bring it to the police, but the question is whether the police found it or the boy,” the police said.
In Austria, anyone who fin-ds cash and brings it to the police can claim between 5-10 per cent of the sum and can receive the whole amount if its owner cannot be found within a year.
