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Five years after their disappearance, jewels thought stolen from the wife of the US ambassador to the Netherlands in 2006 have been found in the Hague.
Dawn Arnall realised her 7m euro (£5.9m; $9.3m) gems were missing months after staying in a Dutch hotel.
Unknown to her, the jewellery had been found and was held for safekeeping by the hotel, AFP reports, before being given to an employee as unclaimed.
The employee, assuming the items were costume jewellery, forgot about them.
Only after she recently found them in a drawer and took them to a jeweller for valuation did their true worth emerge.
They were then handed in to police and have since been returned to the US.
'Stolen' $9m jewels found in drawer
Seeded on Fri Feb 10, 2012 3:05 AM EST
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Where's that stolen $15 trillion at?Isn't it something what makes news,and revealing what doesn't?
#1 - Fri Feb 10, 2012 3:53 AM ESTOOOPS! That happened to me once, except it was a battery for a drill. I though someone stole it off my charger at work. I was fit to be tied because it cost me $85 for a new one. I found it a week later in the utility pouch of the vacuum cleaner I used and had put away. I felt like a dunce having blamed an imaginary theif.
At least it wasn't $9.3 million dollar gems lost for years. I bet Mrs. Arnall feels like a perfect ass. Don't worry Mrs. Arnall- nobody's perfect.
#3 - Fri Feb 10, 2012 7:19 AM ESTI "gotta" get me one of those there jobs as an Ambassador. If he can afford a $9.3 million dollar trinket for his wife then his pay must be pretty darn good.
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