Have You Seen My Gold Bars? I Think I Left Them on the Train
- Forgotten booty remains unclaimed eight months later
- Gold bars have now been confiscated by local prosecutors
Photographer: Akos Stiller/Bloomberg
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The ownership of nearly $200,000 worth of gold bars left on a Swiss commuter train last year remains a mystery, leaving an even bigger question: who commutes with a bag of gold in the first place?
The bars, valued at 182,000 Swiss francs ($191,000), were found last October inside a parcel on a train bound for the lakeside city of Lucerne, according to a June 2 notice in the local gazette. While the weight wasn’t given, calculations at current prices mean the bars weighed about 3.45 kilograms (7.6 pounds), or more or less two copies of ‘War and Peace.’