The owner has five years to stake their claim
GENEVA, June 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — While many of us have left something on a train – a phone, a wallet, headphones – it’s highly unlikely you’ve wandered onto the platform leaving a bagful of gold behind.
Well, one person in Switzerland has. And the authorities would quite like to find them.
Efforts are being made to track down the owner of more than 3kg of gold that was left in a carriage last October.
The parcel containing the gold bars was found in the carriage of a Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) train travelling from the northeastern Swiss town of St Gallen to Lucerne, a city in the centre of the country, in October last year, authorities said.
Despite “extensive investigations,” the owner of the high-value package had not been tracked down, officials said in a statement published in the local government Lucerne Canton gazette.
After authorities failed to track down the owner of the precious cargo, the gold bars, worth 182,000 Swiss francs ($191,000), were confiscated by the public prosecutor’s office.
Now, authorities have decided to publicize their quest to find the bounty’s mysterious owner.
In a bulletin dated June 2, officials said the owner has five years to make a claim for the treasure.
The discovery is only being made public now after efforts to track down the owner were unsuccessful.
A spokesperson for the prosecutor’s office said that several inquiries had been made about the gold and were being checked. No details about the nature of the checks were given. — NNN-AGENCIES
