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# Belgian man finds 255,000 while renovating an old bank
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## A Belgian man renovating a house in Ghent found £255,000 in cash that had
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been left behind unclaimed from when the building had housed a bank almost 10
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years ago.
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![A Belgian man renovating a house in Ghent found 255,000 in cash that had
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been left behind unclaimed from when the building had housed a bank almost 10
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years ago. ][1]
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Dexia Bank Tower in Brussels. Mr Kaya found the money on an old bank branch of
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Dexia Photo: ALAMY
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By Bruno Waterfield in Brussels 5:10PM GMT 21 Dec 2010
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Ferhat Kaya, 33, had bought the property, a former branch of the Dexia bank,
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at a cost of £153,000 to house his accounting firm and before accepting the
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keys turned down the estate agent's quote of £3,000 to remove an old safe.
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Instead he called two close friends, the brothers Murat and Hurun Tufan to
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remove the metal vault. "When the vault was open it revealed bags of 20 and 50
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euro bills," said Murat Tufan. "The receipts were still there, dated December
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31, 2001. We started counting, and it came to some 300,000 euros."
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After speaking to his Turkish father, Mr Kaya decided to call the police even
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though it would have been easy to keep the cash as it had been lost and left
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unwanted by the bank for almost a decade.
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"My friends and I thought we would really make a statement with it: that even
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immigrants are people that say honesty is the best policy," he said.
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Ulrike Pommee, a spokesman for [Belgium's][2] Dexia Bank, said that an
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investigation had been opened but suggested that no trace of money would ever
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be found.
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"We want to determine what happened. It is probably a human error. But the
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investigation will not be easy, because the money is from 2001. A repeat of
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this incident is not possible with current procedures," she said.
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"We will carry out the investigation and then see if there will be a decision
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to give him a reward for reporting the money to police straight away."
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