HERR FLICK'S TOMB RAIDERS
Marija Andric
Marija Andric
Thursday, 03. December 2009
Police have dropped an investigation into the theft of the body of a billionaire tycoon called Herr Flick whose family grew rich because of forced Nazi death camp labour.
Mercedes-Benz heir Freidrich Flick's coffin was stolen from the family vault in Auen, Austria, in November last year and was never recovered despite a 90,000 GBP reward offered by his widow, Ingrid.
Flick's German industrialist family had amassed a 6 billion GBP fortune built on the free labour supplied by Adolf Hitler's concentration camp inmates during World War II.
But today (thursday) Austrian prosecutor Helmut Jamnig said they were dropping the inquiry because the statute of limitations for grave robbing is one year.
Even if the crooks now came forward, it is unlikely they would be prosecuted, he admitted.