A Belgian man renovating a house in Ghent found E255,000 in cash that had been left behind unclaimed form when the building had housed a bank almost 10 years ago.
\nFerhat Kaya, 33, had bought the property, a former branch of the Dexia bank, at a cost of E153,000 to house his accounting firm and before accepting the keys turned down the estate agent\u2019s quote of E3,000 to remove an old safe.
\nInstead he called two close friends, the brothers Murat and Hurun Tufan, to remove the metal vault. \u201cWhen the vault was opened it revealed bags of 20 and 50 euro bills,\u201d said Murat Tufan.
\n\u201cThe receipts were still there, dated December 31, 2001. We started counting, and it came to some 300,000 euros.\u201d
\nAfter speaking to his Turkish father, Mr. Kaya decided to call the police even though it would have been easy to keep the cash as it had been lost and left unwanted by the bank for almost a decade.
\n\u201cMy friends and I thought we would really make a statement with it: that even immigrants are people that say honesty is the best policy,\u201d he said.
\nUlrike Pommee, a spokesman for Belgium\u2019s Dexia Bank, said that an investigation had been opened but suggested that no trace of money would ever be found.
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A Belgian man renovating a house in Ghent found E255,000 in cash that had been left behind unclaimed form when the building had housed a bank almost 10 years ago. Ferhat Kaya, 33, had bought the property, a former branch of the Dexia bank, at a cost of E153,000 to house his accounting firm and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n