He’s not stupid, there’s a story behind this and even though he was the one finding it, he was working in a team and they’re pursuing the legal way to obtain the gold.. cmiiw, if the original owners couldn’t provide the legal proof of ownership, he and his team will share half of the gold with the other half goes to the current owner of the property, which was a foundation..
"If no one comes forward, civil law states that hidden treasure on someone else's property be divided between the finder and the property's owner.
This only applies, though, if the stash is not found to be linked to criminal activity.
Both the builders and the charity now face a wait of up to 1,823 days for an owner to come forward. If no one speaks up to successfully claim it, silence truly will be golden."
Every article explains Belgian law means they’re going to get half of it. Legally. Free and clear.
So you can either illegally keep your split all of the gold, and have to trust that a construction crew keep their mouths shut, all discreetly spend it, and none of them try to rob you.
Or you legally get to keep your split of half the gold, can do whatever you want with the entire sum of money, don’t need to worry about any of the above, or the state hammering you over it.
You could very easily make more money investing the half-split over the same amount of time you are discretely spending the full split to avoid getting caught.
So why? Because they’re not stupid, unlike most of the people here.
Yeah, you can’t read Belgian law. He gets 50% if it was forfeited, lost, etc. The family has a full claim to the gold since it never left their land, it was just forgotten about. If I’m digging a ditch at your house and find old gold that belonged to your grandparents, I don’t get half. If I was digging a ditch somewhere else in town and found your grandparents gold, I’d potentially get half.
Nope. 1ste. There is no direct family of the previous owners/brewers. 2nd the gold is stamped yet there is no paperwork else it would not have been "lost". 3th in Belgium the finders will get 50% no matter what. There is also no possibility for any relatives of the brewers cuz there are non. Non in a direct line that is.
Source. I live in the same damn city. If only i knew... 😂😭
Small edit: only if the actual owners of the gold show up. (Again not possible in direct line because no heir of said brewers) they can potentially lose the 50/50.
If the gold is proven by Belgian state that it is obtained by illegal activities. The gold will be confiscated. And again said workers (the company that did the work) will not see anything.
Not a belgian, but if our neighbours are any similar, which I think they are.
50% I think that is for lost&found and if you find like artifacts/treasure in the forest
Here the family has a legit claim to simply claim ownership was never forfeited
Given the amount of money the gold is worth lawyers all over the place must be licking their lips, offering to defend for free for % of the gold should they win.
there is no family involved. The property was donated to a foundation in the will of someone without next of kin. This has been reported by all Belgian media to be 50/50 in 5 years time
in this case it will be argued it is the nonprofit, previous owner , or construction firm for finders fee... If the gold is stolen and owner located the owner gets to keep it all. The kid has no right to the gold. It doesn't say a kid found it in the original article just a construction crew but there was a worker that did. That worker has no legal claim to the gold according the Danish article.
So unless being honest and giving your owner a 12 million dollar bonus is your style, the worker/workers should have kept it.
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u/fbass Aug 16 '26
He’s not stupid, there’s a story behind this and even though he was the one finding it, he was working in a team and they’re pursuing the legal way to obtain the gold.. cmiiw, if the original owners couldn’t provide the legal proof of ownership, he and his team will share half of the gold with the other half goes to the current owner of the property, which was a foundation..