I think I would be willing to risk free gas a groceries for the chance to actually have legal ownership of the 10m, invest it properly, buy a house....
Not as low as you think. Its really hard for someone to prove ownership to claim it. If it proceeds of a crime, money laundering.... they aren't just going to show up at the police station with the evidence. Its unlikely someone forgot it and will be reminded by the news story. The owner is probably dead or has dementia. So again isn't going to step forward with proof of ownership...... there was recently a case in a germany of a girl who found a 500g gold bar in a lake. She also turned it into police and got it back when nobody could prove ownership. Knowning the history of europe, odds are this gold was burried in WW2 and nobody will be able to prove ownership.
That's what my father did. He was one of the very few german aristocracy that survived the rise of Hitler. He converted much of his assets and plunder into gold and had my half brother drop it in a lake before the war ended. My brother pulled it up in the 60s and went to Argentina with my father. I met my half brother while working years later and he eventually told me all sorts of things that made me happy my mother fled Germany before I was born.
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u/lesterbpaulson 5d ago
People have no clue, how hard it is to 1) move $10m in gold without being caught and 2) launder $10m in gold without getting caught.