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
savings book
with a balance of 17,000 euros and 5,000 euros in
cash
* found its way back to its owner after five years.
At
that time, the
69-year-old
had
forgotten
the
envelope
in which the money and the savings account were in his car and later sold the car, as reported by the police headquarters in North Hesse in Kassel.
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 - made a
"strange find"
in the car on February 20
, as the police describe, and notified the officials.
He
discovered the
unknown
envelope
in a
compartment behind the passenger seat
completely unexpectedly
.
When he opened it, he found the
savings book
with the credit and the cash in it.
“Amazed at
what he found
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 continued.
As he described the officer there, he could not explain how the envelope got into his car.
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The police were able to find the owner of the envelope in Lower Saxony using the name of the savings account and notify the man by telephone: The
69-year-old "loser of the savings account and cash"
was, according to the officials, " visibly surprised ”.
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,
in the hustle and bustle
of a test drive
, the envelope with the savings account and the
cash were
quickly
hidden behind the passenger seat
, which 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
receive
his
valuables
, the police reported at the beginning of March - "thanks to the honest 50-year-old finder from Kassel".
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Source: notification from the police
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