Posted on 12/01/2009 5:19:27 AM PST by darkside321
The stolen body and coffin of a German billionaire, Friedrich Karl Flick, have been found in Hungary.
The coffin and remains were handed over to Austrian authorities at the weekend, Austrian police say.
Thieves stole the coffin in November 2008, after moving a slab of granite at the mausoleum in southern Austria where the industrialist was buried.
Flick inherited German factories that employed slave labour during World War II. He died in 2006 at the age of 79.
In December 2008 his widow Ingrid offered a 100,000-euro (£91,000) reward in an effort to recover the body. No ransom demand was made by the robbers. Flick had been buried at Velden in southern Austria.
There are unconfirmed reports that Hungarian police made some arrests during the investigation.
The late billionaire's father was Friedrich Flick, a German industrialist convicted at Nuremberg of employing slave labour in his armaments factories in Nazi Germany. He served three years in prison before emerging to rebuild his business.
His son, Friedrich Karl Flick, steered the family concern after his father's death in 1972. He was listed by Forbes magazine as one of the world's 100 richest people.
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be not by mammon cowed, there are no pockets in a shroud
yep. but the report as one thing wrong. there was a ransom demand but the family stated from the first day that they will not hand over a single cent to the robbers.
germany is one weird place, isn’t it. The Nazi’s alliance of government and private wealth was very different from Socialism. That people like Flick (the elder) could have profited so immensely during the Nazi period, then serve a brief jail term for abetting slavery and genocide, and then come right back out and take over the identical industrial empire is unique to Nazism.
Odd case.
Actually that is exactly what has happened in the former Warsaw Pact nations, by and large.
Socialism is fairly consistent - national or soviet.
Too bad it wasn’t Soros who went room-temperature.
hint to robbers. don´t kidnap allready dead persons, once they reach room temperature they dramatically loss in value ;-) but still a weird story.
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