Bulldozer digs up $400k on farm

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A BULLDOZER operator clearing farmland has dug up a mystery fortune - a plastic box containing $400,000 in cash that no one wants to claim.

 

The container, stuffed with mouldy, used banknotes, was uncovered on the site of a future quarry near Shellharbour on the New South Wales coast.

 

The find has baffled police who have yet to find the owner but suspect members of a local family may know more about the cash than they are saying.

 

The contractor handed in the smelly fortune to local police.

 

"He was doing some work there, with a bulldozer or bobcat or something, and he found it," a neighbour told The Sunday Telegraph.

 

The site of the treasure trove, about 1km west of the Princes Highway, was approved two years ago for a future quarry for local construction kings Cleary Bros.

 

The big Illawarra firm won council and government approval in 1994 to extend its huge existing quarry south-east over existing dairy farmland at Croom.

 

The contractor was carrying out preliminary site preparation work late last year when he discovered the cash box, similar to a large kitchen container.

 

Police believe the cash may be linked to a Wollongong family with more than $2 million in property holdings, which moved into the area several years ago.

 

The father of the family is in jail awaiting trial on home-invasion charges.

 

One son accompanied him during the violent raid, according to witness statements tendered in Wollongong Local Court.

 

Another son is in jail awaiting sentence after pleading guilty to drug-dealing charges, as well as possession of a loaded pistol and related counts. The family's 32ha farm, bought for almost $1 million several years ago, virtually backs onto the site where the cash fortune was found.

 

"It was found in the bush, almost directly behind their place," said the neighbour, who did not wish to be identified.

 

If it is not claimed within six years, the money goes into the State Government's consolidated revenue fund.

 

The Shellharbour cash is the latest mystery fortune to puzzle NSW Police. In 1994, police found a bag containing $433,000 in cash sitting in a cupboard in a Glebe widow's home.

 

Police claimed the money belonged to the woman's son, a notorious drug dealer, but the High Court ruled that the 62-year-old woman could keep the money because police could not prove their case.

 

However, the bulk of the money is understood to have ended in NSW Government coffers after further negotiations.

 

Now why the hell would you tell anyone about finding it!!!

[moKing]

What a story, thanks for the read. Prob drug money or somethingbut I've heard alot of people never used to trust banks.

[WantDaChronic]

If it is not claimed within six years, the money goes into the State Government's consolidated revenue fund.

 

i was always off the opinion it was finders keepers when it came to finding unclaimed money? well as long as you did the right thing after finding it, ie. handing it into the police and waiting for those few years to pass...it is total bullshit that the government takes it from you and based on that alone if i ever find a decent sum of money in the streets, bush, where ever really i aint even telling my mrs

[rex]

maybe he keep just enough for a new dozer $ truck and a small 6 month hoilady

[trizo]

fuk the police I would of packed up and moved to ansterdam and opened a coffee shop ...

[Stoney]

well i beleive in finder keepers but what i would have done was not tell a living sole and donate 15% to charity that would get me back on par karmicly

 

then the rest would be mine but i would definatly move from that area ya dont really want the person that owns that money to find out ya found it or you will find ya self swimming with the fishes

 

and man just think how pissed off that dude must be that put it there if he aint in jail he would be sitting there reading the story kicking himself

 

and BTW if it was the family that they think it is why the fuck would you not do a night time stealth dig mission at the first sign of a bulldozer coming anywhere near ya property

 

just stupid imho

 

cheerz :Dj: