Massive Canadian gold coin worth millions stolen from German museum

bummer. cut up and sold the pieces.
of course, what else were they going to do with it? The only other option is to melt down add a few trace metals to change the composition and sell.

It's be a tad too obvious to take it to a pawn shop ...

 

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It does have a "nominal" face value of one million dollars. They could have just bought a pack of gum and gotten back change.

 

They probably would have gotten back US Presidential Dollars as change.
Then what would they have done ?? LOL

 

Well, in order to use that "coin" for a cash payment, you would have had to move it from Berlin to some place in Canada. In your carry-on luggage?

The Remmo family clan, by the way, has been involved in various criminal activities. In July they "lost" real estate worth almost €10m that was confiscated. But in this particular case it will be difficult to prove that they, i.e. the accused individuals, were actually involved.

Christian

 

Today was the first day at court - and it will indeed not be easy to prove that these four men actually stole the coin. But this case has already shed some more light on the activities of such criminal clans ...
https://www.rbb24.de/panorama/beitr...-bode-museum-mutmassliche-taeter-gericht.html (German)

Christian

 

Very interesting! Seems like they’ll all walk as long as no one snitches.

 

in translated English
https://translate.google.com/transl...-bode-museum-mutmassliche-taeter-gericht.html

 

Yep, that will be the big problem - apparently it is a question of "honor" among these people to not say a word to the police. Another issue is that this is a juvenile court case due to the age of three of the four.

But this spectacular case has helped, I think, making people (also in police and politics) more aware of these crime clans. A few houses and expensive cars have already been confiscated ...

Christian

 

"Honor" is their way of saying I don't want to get killed for talking

 

Well it was a God ugly coin. Glad it was not not the AV 1000 Mohur from the Mughal Empire, which Emperor Jahangir had struck for his court jester in 1605. That massive coin weighed 35 pounds, would be a shame to damage such a treasure. He also had a second one made for his fav. wife. Wonder why he would not have had one for his coll.?????

 

Here's an English version of the story:
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/10/6842...ins-in-germa?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=news